IAABO Refresher Test Question #58.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

It took some time but I have foundation for simultaneous personal fouls being double fouls.

The NFHS and NCAA Men’s Rules Committee, for the 1980-81 season, added two center jump situations (the center jump has now been superceded by the alternating possession arrow). These two situations are simultaneous personal fouls and simultaneous technical fouls, and can be found in the 2001-02 rules books at:

NFHS: R6-S3-A3g

NCAA Men’s and Women’s: R6-S3-A1f.

Quoting from the NFHS 1980-81 Comments on the above rule change:

Addition of Two Center Jump Situations (R6-S2-A3, R6-S2-A4). The false double foul rule was revised over a three-year period. The rule is now clearly written and easy to understand and administer. The present coverage can result in two instances where a center jump is required following administration of free throws. If the fouls involved in the last penalty of a false double foul are simultaneous personal or simultaneous technical fouls by opponents (but not on each other) a center jump must follow the free throw administration. It would not be fair to allow play to continue as normal following a made or missed free throw at either end of the court. It would also have been true that with simultaneous personal fouls and neither team in the bonus, if there were no jump ball, one team would be awarded the ball out-of-bounds. The two additions clarify that a center jump is required in these two instances, so neither team is given an advantage.