Taking Jersey Off at Bench

[bob jenkins]

By looking at the annual interps, I infer that the rule came in to effect in the 2005-2006 season. And, one of the case plays from that year specifically deals with blood on the jersey:

SITUATION 5: A1 is directed to leave the game with a blood-saturated jersey. While at the team bench area, he/she removes the jersey and changes into a clean, spare jersey. RULING: A1 is assessed a technical foul. Team B is awarded two free throws and the ball for a division line throw-in. COMMENT: The uniform rule is intended to be applied in all situations. It is not unreasonable to expect team members to leave the playing area to change uniforms

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Altor

This rule came into NFHS rulebooks everywhere about 2 seconds after Brandi Chastain removed her jersey when the USA won the 1999 Women's World Cup.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

By looking at the annual interps, I infer that the rule came in to effect in the 2005-2006 season.

bob jenkins is correct. The NFHS basketball rule first appeared in 2005-06. That's an awful long two seconds.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

bob jenkins is correct. The NFHS basketball rule first appeared in 2005-06. That's an awful long two seconds.

Apply the Theory of General Relativity and you will see that two seconds is the correct time.

MTD, Sr.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I have a basketball friend (yes I really have friends) who is Canadian, and officiates women's college basketball in the Great White North. Many years ago, he officiated a women's exhibition game between (I will not use real names to protect the guilty.) a college from the Province of Ontario and the woman's national team from one of the Scandanavian countries. Just before game time it was discovered the Visiting team and brought its "white" jerseys and not its "dark" colored jerseys. The Home team graciously lent their "dark" colored jerseys to its Guest. They was a collective sigh as the air was sucked out of the arena as the Visitors changed their jersey at court side and everybody discovered that many of the Visitors did not wear bras (some of them didn't shave their underarms either).

MTD, Sr.