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The Ragin' Cajuns Used The Rare Basketball Power Play To Beat Western Kentucky In Overtime

Hard to believe this could happen in overtime in a college game. Do you think a team could play with six in your game for :21 without anyone noticing?

I'm sure the three on the court thought it could never happen to them, either.

Happens to the best of us...

This happened in an NBA game a two years ago in a Celtics game...I believe the opponent scored a bucket or two before it was noticed by anyone. The next year, the NBA made a rule change and made 6 players on the floor a correctable error.

At 00:07...
 

...there are five RED players standing right in front of the C. What in the world could he have been focused on to miss that?

What is C pointing at at the 0:18 mark of the video? telling the L that the L has the 5-second count?

Red 1 stood in front of C unguarded for a long time, then red 21.

How so, APG? POI from the point #6 took the court?

Once it's been realized that six are on the court, the offending team is issued a technical foul. Afterward, the offended team has two options:

1. Continue from the point in time when the technical foul was issued.
2. Go back to the time when the ball was put in play whenever six players were on the court and wipe out any points and fouls except for flagrant/unsporting fouls and points scored from them.

If the ball was put in play from a missed free throw that remained in play, you would have a jump ball at center court between any two players in the game at the time. If it was a throw-in, it would go back to that original throw-in. If from a jump ball, it would go back to that original jump ball between the same two jumpers.

Wow! So then 3 guys didn't count 5 guys on either team! Because it is be rare that an official counts one team but not the other.

Announcers don't notice. Teams don't seem to notice (at least during play -- one coach approaches the officials after the game).

6 On The Floor, Uh-Oh
 

Officials could face suspension for failing to call technical foul on Louisiana-Lafayette for having six players on court - ESPN

Happens to the best of the best...

Sorry for re-posting this. I didn't make it through all the threads to see if it had been posted.

It goes to show you that errors at the end of the game are more egregious than at other times in the game.

When I help train newbies, and the topic of finishing comes up, I remind them that people mostly remember how you began officiating the game, and how you ended officiating the game.

So what was the proper way to call this penalty? Do you call it as soon as the extra man enters the court after the time out or do you call it after the ball has been whistled for play ???

If you see it when he enters, you send him back. This is not a penalty until the throw in is completed. If you know there are six (or more), don't start play until there are five.

Once the ball is in play, if you notice six, you call it immediately (unless the other team is about to shoot, then you wait a moment).