A light diversion to start the weekend

[Duffman]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Was talking to a co-worker who grew up in Oklahoma. He mentioned growing up watching girls six-on-six basketball and wondered if I had heard of it before and I confessed I hadn't.

Has anybody every officiated these types of games (the last ones went out in 1993 in Iowa and 1995 in Oklahoma aparrently)?

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I've never officiated in one of these games but I grew up playing in Iowa when they played 6v6 still. It was a completely different game thats for sure. By the time I graduated they had already phased 6v6 out at the bigger schools, and within a few more years they had done so accross the state. Believe it or not there was quite an uproar when they got rid of 6v6 for good, many people were sad to see the 6v6 game leave.

The existance of the 6v6 game was one of the biggest reasons Iowa is one of the few (maybe even only) state who has two governing bodies over HS athletics, a girls union and a boys association.

Some interesting rules.... offensive players were only allowed 2 dribbles, defenseive to offensive play was initiated by a defender securing the ball and passing it to an offensive player who had to stand in the half court circle who then had to turn and "inbound" the ball to an offensive player... My younger sister actually played both in HS.