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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 10:51am
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Crossing Half Court?
Has anyone ever heard of an 8 second count to cross half court?? I am calling in an college intramural league and being told that this has been changed across the board. NCAA, high school etc. Is this correct? I never knew it changed from a 10 second count.
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 10:54am
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Has anyone ever heard of an 8 second count to cross half court?? I am calling in an college intramural league and being told that this has been changed across the board. NCAA, high school etc. Is this correct? I never knew it changed from a 10 second count.
It is 10-second in NFHS and NCAA-M. I believe the NBA is 8 seconds.
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I think that's the NBA rule. It's still 10-seconds on NCAA and FED.
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 12:15pm
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Has anyone ever heard of an 8 second count to cross half court?? I am calling in an college intramural league and being told that this has been changed across the board. NCAA, high school etc. Is this correct? I never knew it changed from a 10 second count.
What you are "being told" is incorrect. Eight seconds is the NBA rule.

Nothing has changed at the HS or NCAA level.
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 12:27pm
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What you are "being told" is incorrect. Eight seconds is the NBA rule.

Nothing has changed at the HS or NCAA level.

No, you're confusing that with the 8 steps rule............
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 12:46pm
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i thought that was the case
I cant even find any mention on the NIRSA (college intramurals) rules. It says defer to NCAA rules if not explicitly addressed.
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 01:24pm
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Has anyone ever heard of an 8 second count to cross half court?? I am calling in an college intramural league and being told that this has been changed across the board. NCAA, high school etc. Is this correct? I never knew it changed from a 10 second count.
It's 8 seconds in FIBA.

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No, you're confusing that with the 8 steps rule............
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 05:28pm
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Has anyone ever heard of an 8 second count to cross half court?? I am calling in an college intramural league and being told that this has been changed across the board. NCAA, high school etc. Is this correct? I never knew it changed from a 10 second count.
FIBA & NBA are the only 2 rule sets (that I know of) that has an 8-sec backcourt count.
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Old Wed Jan 09, 2008, 11:01pm
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rhudson - What school are you at?

Also, despite the NIRSA rules supposedly deferring to NCAA rules, their rules (and most schools') are more often deferring to NFHS rules.
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