Boys and Girls Basketball Associations....different rules

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

In a time long ago and far away, first the NBCofUS&C wrote the rules for boys' H.S. and men's college. Then the NBCofUS&C added girls' H.S. to the mix, but women's college in all of the USA and girls' H.S. in many areas of the Northeast USA played basketball using NAGWS rules. NAGWS rules were based upon FIBA rules and to officiate women's college anywhere in the USA and girls' H.S. in those areas that used NAGWS rules, one had to belong to a NAGWS Board of Women's Basketball Officials. There are still some of those NAGWS Boards in existence and they only officiate girls' H.S. basketball. NAGWS does not write basketball rules anymore.

NAGWS: National Association of Girls and Women in Sports.