NCAA-W, correctable or not?
 

This actually happened in the women's game before my game tonight.

A1 is fouled by B1 and is awarded a 1-and-1. B1 makes uncomplimentary comments to the official, and is assessed a technical foul. Officials clear the lane and administer the first free throw of the 1-and-1, which is successful. They then realize that they should've administered the technical free throws first.

So they wipe off the first free throw, and essentially start the sequence over in the correct order.

First, is this a correctable error?

Second, I seem to remember that there was an AR on the women's side that treated a similar situation (or maybe it actually was this situation) as a correctable error, even though it seemed to me that it was not really correctable. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Third, what would've happened if the first free throw of the 1-and-1 had been unsuccessful? Does that change anything?

I have a hard time seeing this as a CE. The FT was merited and attempted at the right basket. This is an official's error.

What I would do is to immediately shoot the FTs for the T and go back to PoI and shoot the second FT from the 1-1.

There is no AR in the current casebook that addresses this.

If the first FT were unsuccessful, I would again immediately shoot the FTs for the T and go back to PoI, which in this case is an AP throw-in.

It is a correctable error. Proceeding to the 1-and-1 as if the T never happened constitutes failure to award merited free throws for the T.

The remedy was incorrect. Wiping the free throw would be proper only if it were an unmerited free throw, which would also be correctable. But correcting a correctable error does not involve backtracking or undoing game action to the point of the error.

They should have counted the front of the 1-and-1, shot the free throws for the T (as if it had happened between the two free throws for the 1-and-1), and then returned to complete the 1-and-1.

That's what I would have done.

Didn't we just have this conversation 2-3 days ago? :D

Concerning the first question, which error, I see three possible errors?
1)Not shooting the freethrows in the correct order.
2)Errantly wiping off freethrows that were merited.
3)Errantly starting over the sequence of freethrows that did not need to be started-over.

I presume you mean the first point, however 2 and 3 don't seem to be correctable.

Is there any casebook support for this, either at the college or HS level? I know we are essentially talking semantics, as I agree with the remedy suggested. I just don't see "shooting free throws in the wrong order" as equivalent to "failure to award a merited free throw". Again, not sure it really matters. Just wondering what you think.

At the time the 1-1 was shot, then the FTs for the T were missed -- so at that time, it was a CE.

By the time this all finished, they had corrected the error, so there was no more CE.

Of course they're not equivalent. The point is that the game went on without awarding merited free throws. You can erroneously skip free throws and do almost anything: free throws for some other foul, a throw-in, an AP throw-in, end a period, etc.

For NFHS look at 2.10.1 situations. You'll see that failure to award merited free throws happens when play goes on in some manner other than awarding the merited free throws. What else would constitute "failure to award merited free throws?" It's an omission.

I'm a little puzzled about why people have trouble understanding this point.

I seem to remember an AR that came from the women's side, and I think it went something like this:

B1 fouls A1 and Team A is in the bonus. It is B1's 5th foul. Coach B is notified of the disqualification and the notifying official is waiting for B1's sub. For whatever reason, the other official administers the first free throw of the 1-and-1 before the substitution is complete.

I believe that the ruling was to wipe out the first free throw, complete the substitution and re-administer the 1-and-1. Does anybody remember that ruling (keeping in mind that it came from the women's side only)? And if so, does anybody think that ruling might have some bearing on my original play?

Yes.

No.

Ok, glad I wasn't imaging things.

Why not? It's a case where there is no correctable error, yet the free throw is wiped out and there's a "do-over".

Some of us are just a little slow. . .
 

I think it's because when we think of failing to award merited free throws, most people think of a situation where we miss the fact that a team is in the bonus and award a throw-in instead. When they have in their mind that Team A is entitled to a free throw, and they simply don't award it in the correct order, some folks don't see that as a failure to award. I understand the argument, however, and I agree. Whenever we continue the game (whether by throw-in, free throw, or whatever) without having awarded free throws that were merited, we have a CE. I get it. ;)

Excellent! :)

When the first FT for the 1-1 is shot, we've (well, they've) failed to award the merited FTs for the T. It's a CE right there. It's discovered, and corrected, by have the FTs for the T shot.

In the ruling, merited FTs were shot, but were "ignored" because of the DQd player. I dont' see them as similar at all. Maybe I'm mis-reading the play.

That makes sense.

Maybe in the ruling, they're saying the ball never became live because the required substitution never occurred?