BI to win Camp Championship....or is it?

[tmp44]

Championship of the Team Camp that I went to this weekend. I had just worked the semi-finals of the Varsity Division, and was watching the JV final. Team A up by 1, 0:15 left, Team B has the ball. B1 drives the right side and puts up a layup with 0:04 left and misses. B2 gets the backside rebound and gets a tip off right before the buzzer. The ball hits high off the backboard, then the front of the rim and bounces straight up about 4-5 inches. As the attempt is being made, defender A1 has jumped from about midway in the lane towards the basket. Realizing that it's too late to block the shot, A1 grabs and bottom of the net and pulls down on it, causing the entire basket to come down and spring back up (Important Note: Not the rim, but the entire basket mechanism. This was one of those portable college type baskets where the entire hoop can sort of "sink" on a hard dunk...this is exactly what happened here). As the basket springs back up, the front of the rim makes contact with the ball on the way down, causing it to not go in the hoop. C comes in w/ BI, and Team B wins by 1.

After the play was over, the clinicians who were watching the game discussed the sitch for a while. Now, taking what the rule book actually says about BI, I can see where someone might have a problem with this call. Recall that section (a) states that the ball must be on the rim when contact is made with either the rim, net, etc. and that section (d) states that if the movable ring is brought down and springs back up, then BI is the call.

In this sitch, the ball was not on the rim when contact with the net occurred and the rim itself did not bend, only the basket as a whole. That being said, the action did not allow the ball an opportunity to go in the hoop. Does anyone NOT have BI here?

[Edited by tmp44 on Jun 27th, 2005 at 08:33 AM]