Five fouls and allowed to continue.

[Mark Dexter]

Not subject to debate - the player comes out of the game.

Of course, there are two ways around this:

(1) If the home team wants to make things equal, they can keep 5 men on the floor but have one player just stand to the side and not participate.

(2) (A bit more of a stretch) Bookkeeping errors can be corrected at any time. The officials could (note - I'm not endorsing this, just tossing it out there) say that the 4th foul on A1 was really supposed to be the 3rd foul on A2. A1 then doesn't have 5 fouls, and is eligible to play.


While there is the problem of liability, I worry more about what happend if the visitors come back to win. Home coach is going to be steaming mad, will probably file a complaint with the state, and the visitors may very well lose the game for playing with an ineligible player, and could face harsher penalties.