Illegal/legal sub.

[Bart Tyson]

Last night I worked a HS game. During our pregame talk, the coach presented us with a situation during his last game. Team A is at the FT line for a 3 shot foul. A1 shoots the 1st FT. B6 then subs for B5. The substitution is complete. i.e. B5 is now sitting on the bench. The officials then assess a T-foul for illegal substitution. Then they shoot the T, then continue with POI. My thoughts: If the officials saw this happening, then they should have stopped it when the player started to come on the court. Assuming they didn't see it as it was happening, then are we able to rule the player legal sense they didn't catch it at the time it happened?

[Edited by Bart Tyson on Feb 15th, 2006 at 01:43 PM]