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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 11:05am
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Girls basketballs should be pink.
I'd be happy if there was a distinguishing characteristic. Too many stories of boys games being played with girls balls and vice versa.

When I'm the R, it's the first thing I check. I can palm a girls ball -- I can't palm a boys ball.
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I'd be happy if there was a distinguishing characteristic. Too many stories of boys games being played with girls balls and vice versa.

When I'm the R, it's the first thing I check. I can palm a girls ball -- I can't palm a boys ball.
Don't most girl's balls have a size listed on the ball?

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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 01:14pm
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Don't most girl's balls have a size listed on the ball?

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They all do. Doesn't mean people look.
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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 01:23pm
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They all do. Doesn't mean people look.
Well I would understand if you are a boys/men's official and never noticed this, but if you work girls/women's basketball then you should know or look I would think. Heck they could change the ball and I would not care for sure, but it just seems like there is a way to verify already.

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Well I would understand if you are a boys/men's official and never noticed this, but if you work girls/women's basketball then you should know or look I would think. Heck they could change the ball and I would not care for sure, but it just seems like there is a way to verify already.

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You might have an issue once every three or four seasons. It's very easy to forget to look for the 28.5, so a feature more obvious than the 8 font fine print would be helpful even though it's not necessary.
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It's very easy to forget to look for the 28.5, so a feature more obvious than the 8 font fine print would be helpful even though it's not necessary.
Something tells me the OP won't be forgetting to check for the 28.5 anytime soon.
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You might have an issue once every three or four seasons. It's very easy to forget to look for the 28.5, so a feature more obvious than the 8 font fine print would be helpful even though it's not necessary.
I can honestly say that I have never had this happen to me. I guess it is possible, never been a problem. But then again I am not working any girls basketball so that might be the reason. And we do not often play boys and girls games on the same night. So it seems to be easier to avoid where I am.

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Had this happen once, many years ago in a jr. high girls game. Near the end of the first half, I think, handed to a girl for a free throw.

"This is a boy's ball."

Me: "Surely not."

She was right.

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I can honestly say that I have never had this happen to me. I guess it is possible, never been a problem. But then again I am not working any girls basketball so that might be the reason. And we do not often play boys and girls games on the same night. So it seems to be easier to avoid where I am.

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I can't say I've ever heard of a girls ball being used in a boys game (not that it hasn't happened), so I'm not surprised it hasn't happened to you.

I had an assigner in Des Moines who said he had it in a women's college game. FT shooter noticed it early in the 2nd half.
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Don't most girl's balls have a size listed on the ball?
It's all teed up for you Mark Padgett. Smack it into the bleachers.
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It's all teed up for you Mark Padgett. Smack it into the bleachers.
Waaaaaay too easy.
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I'd be happy if there was a distinguishing characteristic. Too many stories of boys games being played with girls balls and vice versa.

When I'm the R, it's the first thing I check. I can palm a girls ball -- I can't palm a boys ball.

I can't either ball which suprised Sally Bell when we were discussing the difference between the two one time years ago.

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