Clarification on fighting technicals

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

We've had discussions about whether certain technical fouls offset during a fight. For example, if A6, A7 and B6 come off the benches and only observe, but B7 leaves the bench and participates. In this case, there's an uneven number of non-participants and an uneven number of participants. Do all the technicals offset? Or do they only offset within each category.

Not sure why I never saw this before, but 10.4.5 Situation A in the new casebook addresses it almost exactly, stating that no free throws are awarded and play is resumed at the POI. This is marked with an asterisk, to indicate that it's a new ruling, but there's an almost identical ruling in last year's book. It's 10.4.5 Situation E.

First of all that case play is EXACTLY the same as last year. There has been NO change in the wording of it at all, only the Situation letter has changed. There was no reason for the NFHS to put an asterisk in front of it.

Secondly, that play ruling is not helpful to answering whether or not the technicals from different categories may offset because in the example that it provides there are an equal number of on court fighters and team members leaving the bench. All of the team members leaving the bench are also considered to have done so simultaneously and that is the reason provided for cancelling the penalties when only one of them engages in the fight.

Unfortunately, the NFHS failed to provide clear guidance for us on this issue again this season.