Lane Space Violation

[Jimgolf]

All right, I'm missing something here. 2005 NFHS rule book: 8-4-b: The first marked lane spaces shall be occupied by opponents of the free thrower.

In this situation, all opponents of the free thrower are occupying a first marked lane space.

Why would this be a violation? Does anyone believe that the spirit of the rules would allow the team to continue with one player, then penalize the one player for not being two players?

By the way, we had a game two years ago where all the players for a team fouled out. The last player fouled out on an offensive foul with 1:10 or so left and his team up by 8. He just had to score another basket. I guess he never heard of the one corner delay offense.

No, I didn't ref that game. And the coach didn't even complain about unequal calls. They were all pretty obvious.