You can access it on Eofficials web site. I don't think theWMen post theirs but do know the women has it posted.

I just downloaded it from EOfficials. It's in PDF format.

Are there separate ones for men and women?

Could you post a link?

You need your user/password. Under 2006-07 Clinic Information they have both Men's and Women's presentations available.

It's on eofficials?

I haven't seen it, I would appreciate a link to the bulletin, thanks

After you sign in go to the NCAA link, then scan the page.

As someone who is an official scorer at a D-III school (and often is the only one keeping a book at the table) all this talk about errors at the table or discrepancies between what's in the book and what the referee has in mind regarding timeouts left is making me nervous.

Don't be nervous. Just work hard to do your job and pay close attention to everything. Sounds pretty easy, you know... like running up and down the court blowing a whistle. ;)

Thanks for the reply. You're right about paying attention, of course. I'll just have to stay focused.

Early in the year I think this is a great learning experience for what is likely a young coach. He should have someone i.e. an asst. keeping track of his fouls and time-outs. However, if the official score keeper reguardless of who it is (parent or fan) is keeping the book; told him he had one I would find it hard to T, especially since the post said he heard the table tell hime he had one. The outcome of the game shouldn't be because of a book keeping error on the scorer. Either way you handle it he probably won't make that mistake again.

NFHS 2-12-6 says the scorekeeper shall " notify a team and its coach, through an official, whenever that team is granted its final allotted charged time-out."

So the coach and at least one official should be aware when the coach has used his last timeout.

Can you call a T on the table? Then why penalize the team? If the coach has recorded that he still has 1 timeout left, and the scorebook says he doesn't, who wins the argument? Are you still going to T the coach because the table isn't competant?

I agree with the "preventive game management" position. Isnt it possible that the ''Coach, you have no more time-outs left" info from the scorer could be as wrong as the OP?

Informing the coach he/she has no more times-out is part of an officials duties. It's in the rulebook but I can't quote the rule number at this moment.

Oops, read Jimgolf's post above yours.

At lower levels, who does the book could be anyone, from a parent doign their first game to an injured player or student team manager.

We have one middle school in my area that consistently has non-playing players keep their book, so when we play at their site, I take NFHS 2-11-11 very literally and ask the scorer how many fouls are on a player after each and every foul and how many time outs are left after each time out. It probably isn't foolproof, but it at least minimizes the likelihood of bad information.

As for the orginial scenario, if the official scorer tells an official a team has one time out, and then after the tean's coach calls it, informs the official, there was really zero time outs left, I'd find it difficult to whack the coach (Team-T) if they were given clearly faulty information from the official book/scorer.