Whao Has the Final Say?

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by PIAA REF

if they don't know and we still don't have an answer and although at this point you feel as if you should be in a Southwest Airline commercial... We would have count the bucket and if it resulted in the end of the game fun like hell to the locker room. If this was the playoffs make it you car.

I agree with Rich that I'd never ask the table in this sitch, but I got a good laugh out of this half of your post. That Southwest Airlines Commercial feeling is definitely a possibility!

[rainmaker]

According to 2-13, there's nothing to say the table SHOULDN'T be consulted, but the only rule/case book sitch where the table is granted specific authority is when the floor officials don't hear the horn or buzzer. I would infer from that that in the OP, if the officials disagree about whether or not the ball had left the hands of the shooter, table has no say in whether or not to count the basket.

Also, it appears that if the R doesn't have definite knowledge, the basket should be counted as good. Again, those are just my inferences from the rule book.