Last night I am at a boy's varsity basketball game. Three man crew doing the games. All 3 are NCAA officials.

Team A steals the ball goes the length of the court for a lay-up as time expires. The shooter misses the shot, the horn sounds. Team A's coach runs on to the court and wants a foul called. The trail official gives the coach a T.

How do you start the overtime period????????????????

Assuming the score was tied when time expired, you'll start the overtime period with two FT's for team B, and team B will inbound the ball at midcourt.

See 5.6 Comment B (and related cases) in the casebook.

Mark


I do not have my rule book with me. What would rule 5.6 say?

Just what Mark posted in his previous post -- IF the score is tied, start the OT with the T.

If the score is not tied and the FTs matter, shoot the throws as part of the 4th quarter and start the OT with a jump ball.

If the FTs don't matter, don't shoot them.

Ok, Here is what they did. Team B shoots 2 foul shots.
Then they jumped the ball to start the Overtime period.

This seems to be incorrect.

It was incorrect - when you start with technical foul FT's, you then begin play with an inbounds for the offended team (with the arrow pointing to the offending team).

It sounds like these guys were remembering their NCAA games, where after certain technical fouls, play resumes at the point of interruption - in this case, you would have the jump ball. (Can any NCAA refs point out where the reference is in the book?)

The reference has to be in the penalty sections of 10-1, 10-2 and 10-3, I think. It's also listed nicely in the chart of Summary of Penalties in the back of the book.