NFHS vs. NCAA Mens

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

The rules are different for an airborne player w/the ball who falls to the ground (ie: a player who jumps to catch a pass or rebound and then falls straight to the floor).

They are? Isn't that sitch a travel in both rulesets?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

They are? Isn't that sitch a travel in both rulesets?

FED 4-44-5a: A player holding the ball may not touch the floor with a knee or any other part of the body other than hand or foot.

NCAA 4-72-6: It is travelling when a player falls to the playing court while holding the ball without maintaining a pivot foot.

AR 132 indicates that it is "virtually impossible" not to move the pivot foot when falling to the floor.

The rules are different, but 95% of the plays would be called the same.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

NCAA 4-72-6: It is travelling when a player falls to the playing court while holding the ball without maintaining a pivot foot.

I actually knew that reference, but I guess I didn't think of that rule in reference to an airborne player. I always thought of it as a player standing with the ball and going to a knee. In that case, it would be pretty easy to maintain a pivot foot.

Re-reading it, I can see that would also apply to the airborne player. So, my bad. (But I think we could remove the word "virtually" from that AR.)