Faking Being Fouled Rule ...

[Mike Goodwin]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

...Penalties not administered in the order in which they occurred (is this a NFHS first)...

We spent thirty minutes on this rule.

You've seen this in writing in NFHS - penalties not administered in the order they occurred (Fundamental 12) - dissimilar to what follows?

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This was the situation and administration in Play 5 from an IAABO presentation on Technical Fouls today:

Team B is warned for Faking Being Fouled in the first quarter. Later in the game, A-1 releases the ball during a try for goal and defender B-2 fakes being fouled.

The ruling official withholds a whistle and displays the signal for faking being fouled. A-1's try is unsuccessful. A-3 secures the rebound and is fouled by B-4 while in the act of shooting.

Ruling: Officials award A-3 two free throws with no players lined up for the foul by B-4 while A-3 was in the act of shooting. Team A is then awarded two free throws for the second infraction of the faking-being-fouled rule and Team A is awarded the ball at the division line for the ensuing throw-in. Is this correct? YES!

Officials should display the faking-being-fouled signal and withhold their whistle when a defender fakes being fouled. The offensive team is allowed to complete their attempt to score and then play should be stopped. In this case, play was stopped when A-3 was fouled in the act of shooting. In situations similar to this, first penalize the foul that caused play to be stopped (foul in the act of shooting) [emphasis added].

Because the ball will remain dead, no players line up for the foul-in-the-act-of-shooting free throws and no players line up for free throws resulting from the technical foul due to Team B's second infraction of the faking-being-fouled rule. Continue play by awarding the ball to Team A for a division-line throw-in.

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Even though B-2's faking being fouled takes place before the foul by B-4, once play is stopped, the personal foul gets reported to the scorer first and then the faking being fouled gets reported. Once confirmed by the scorer as a subsequent offense, Team B is assessed a Team Technical Foul, which has then 'occurred' after the personal foul was assessed.