Step on Line -- Legal or Illegal?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I think not. By definition, the division line is "in the other half" for both jumpers.

I'd be very pleased to see something in black and white on this, Bob.
From where do you derive your information?

[Nevadaref]

BTW this paragraph is relevant to the discussion in this thread.

SUPPLEMENT TO COURT DIAGRAM
Court Specifications:
...

3. Instead of the 2-inch minimum boundaries, it is legal to use contrastingcolored
floor areas by painting the out-of-bounds area, the center restraining
circle, and the restricted parts of the free-throw lanes so that the
mathematical line between the two colors is the boundary. If such contrasting
colored out-of-bounds belt is used, it should be at least 8 inches wide.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I'd be very pleased to see something in black and white on this, Bob.
From where do you derive your information?

Common sense.

The rulesmakers have to give us something half-way definitive to allow us to make a judgment. Making us try to guess whether a jumper's toe went more than half-way over a division line or not doesn't really make much sense from either the rulesmakers or rules callers side imo. We have enough to do out there without having to make stoopid decisions like that.

And from a rules standpoint:
1) Rule 1-3-2 says that the division line divides the court into two equal parts.
2) Rule 6-3-1 says that the jumpers have to stay in their half of the circle(iow in their equal part).

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Common sense.

The rulesmakers have to give something half-way definitive to allow us to make a judgment. Making us try to guess whether a jumper's toe went more than half-way over a division line or not doesn't really make much sense from either the rulesmakers or rules callers side imo. We have enough to do out there without having to make stoopid decisions like that.

As you can see from what I wrote in one of my prior posts, I happen to agree with that reasoning.

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

By 6-3-1 it appears that each jumper would be entitled to half of the division line, but that is a difficult way to make judgments.

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And from a rules standpoint:
1) Rule 1-3-2 says that the division line divides the court into two equal parts.
2) Rule 6-3-1 says that the jumpers have to stay in their half of the circle(iow in their equal part).

1. Absolutely true, but those equal parts do not equate to half of the length of the court as each side would be one inch short.
2. The problem is that their equal part of the circle on each side of the division line does not equate to half of the circle as the rule stipulates.