Scores in Wrong Basket

[Nevadaref]

Originally posted by rfp
Girl gets confused and shoots and scores in the other team's basket. Points obviously go to the team into whose basket the ball went, but after the ball goes in, do you blow the whistle and award the ball to the the team of the confused girl? Or no whistle, let them figure out what happened and play on?

When this happened last weekened, I blew the whistle because after it happened there was a lot of confusion. Told the scorer to count the basket for the correct team and then in-bounded to the confused girl's team while getting everyone re-oriented.

Thinking about it later, I'm not sure I should have blown the whistle since there was no violation or foul. Whistle or no whistle?

You did it exactly right. A whistle needs to be blown on this play.

The definitive ruling for the NFHS is given in the Simplified and Illustrated book on page 21. The official is to stop play, credit two points to the team whose goal the ball went through, and then award the ball for an end line throw-in to the team not credited with the score.