Who gets possession?

[ChuckElias]

First of all, B1's foul is not a technical foul. It sounds like A1 has the ball and is attempting to throw it in. That means the ball is live, and B1 contacted A1 (as opposed to contacting the ball). Therefore, the foul against B1 is an intentional personal foul. However, if, as you say, B1 was malicious (read, "trying to injure"), then it should be a flagrant personal foul.

In any case, even if they were both technicals these fouls did not occur at approximately the same time, so we have a FALSE double foul situation. The penalties will be administered in the order in which the infractions occurred.

A1 will shoot two FTs with no one along the lane. Then anyone from Team B will shoot 2 FTs with no one along the lane. Then Team B will inbound the ball at midcourt, opposite the table. The alternating possession procedure is NOT in effect; B's possession is part of the penalty for the technical foul and is not dependant on the arrow.

The technical foul on Team A is recorded as a team foul, but is not charged to any player, or indirectly to the coach. If the official incorrectly ruled B1's foul to be technical, then I'm not sure how it should be recorded. If it's a delay technical then it goes to the team; but I would want to tag B1 with it if I could figure out how.

Chuck

[Edited by ChuckElias on Apr 30th, 2002 at 01:52 PM]