Rect. Backboard Rules

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by jdmara
I understand that rule would exclude the bottom of the board from being out of bounds. My problem with that is that the case book doesn't address the bottom of the board at all but it addresses all the other sides. I guess I've always heard/thought it was out of bounds and now I have doubt

NFHS rule 4-4-5--"A ball which which touches the front faces or edges of the backboard is treated the same as touching the floor inbounds....."

It says "edges"-which is all edges, including top, sides and bottom.

If you ever use NCAA rules, it's the same. The rules are on-line @ http://www.ncaa.org and you can find this one somewhere at the start of the NCAA rule #4 too

Welcome to the forum. All questions welcomed.

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Jan 18th, 2005 at 09:33 PM]