NCAA Women's Mechanics- Out of Bounds
 

I would swear that I saw a PowerPoint slide in a camp this summer that the OOB mechanic would now be similar to NFHS, that is (1) hand up for stop clock, then (2) two-finger directional. I haven't gotten my CCA book yet but did anyone else see this?

The camp teaching points said they wanted us to point a direction first before doing anything else (like tapping a knee, making a brush gesture, pointing at a player or the line, etc). Direction, then any informational/selling signal we choose to add.

No NFHS clock-stopping, thank goodness.

https://ncaawbb.arbitersports.com/Gr...ointsfinal.pdf

Yeah I saw that one too, thanks. But I thought (I could be wrong) there was a different slide with a Playpic showing the stop clock, then the point.

Why not show 3 fingers on an attempted three point shot? I thought that was the whole point of showing the "3-point attempt" signal. Never understood why they would specifically want all five extended or why it really even matters.

Because no one could decide which three fingers (no, I'm not kidding. D. Williamson said as much at a camp). In the manual you're supposed to hold up the middle three fingers but not many people did that (I did). Some even did the FIBA method (thumb-index-middle). The rules folks decided to make it half a touchdown to standardize it.


The only time we use the "stop clock" mechanic in NCAAW on an OOB is if the ball goes out but we aren't sure which team touched it last. Other than that, direction is the first signal.

The reason that FIBA uses the thumb-index-middle signal is because that is the only three finger combination that does not have a negative connotation in any society on Earth.

MTD, Sr.

This makes sense and probably the context in which I saw it.

Le Système International D'Unités ...
 

No. It's because the thumb-index-middle is based on the metric system.