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National Federation of State High School Associations

NFHS Basketball

2014-15

Rules Changes

Major Editorial Changes

Points of Emphasis



NFHS Basketball

2014-15

Rules Changes

Arm sleeves, knee sleeves, lower leg

sleeves and tights are permissible

(3-5-3)

Anything worn on the arm and/or

leg is a sleeve, except a knee

brace, and shall meet the color

restrictions.

The sleeves/tights shall be black,

white, beige or the predominant

color of the uniform and the same

color sleeves/tights shall be worn

by teammates.

Arm sleeves, knee sleeves, lower leg

sleeves and tights are permissible

(3-5-3)

All sleeves/tights shall be the same

solid color.

Meet the logo requirements – not to

exceed 2 ¼ square inches with no

dimension more than 2 ¼ inches.

Note: In general, a brace is defined

as anything that contains hinges

and/or straps or an opening over

the knee cap.

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Team Member’s Apparel

Rule 3-5-3

Arm, knee and lower-leg sleeves, and tights, are permissible

without a medical reason as long as they meet the rules

book specifications .


Team Member’s Apparel

Rule 3-5-3

All players of the team must have the same color sleeves or

tights, if worn.

ILLEGAL LEGAL

Intentional Foul

(4-19-3d)

An INTENTIONAL FOUL includes

excessive contact with an opponent

while the ball is live or until an

airborne shooter returns to the floor.


Intentional Foul

Rule 4-19-3d

Excessive contact committed by any player should be ruled

as an intentional foul.


Intentional Foul

Rule 4-19-3d

Excessive contact committed by any player should be ruled

as an intentional foul.

Player Occupying a Marked Lane Space

(9-1-3g)

A player occupying a marked lane

space may not have either foot beyond

the vertical plane of the outside edge of

any lane boundary, or beyond the

vertical plane of any edge of the space

(2 inches by 36 inches) designated by a

lane-space mark.

Player Occupying a Marked Lane Space

(9-1-3g)

A player shall position one foot near

the outer edge of the free-throw

lane line.

The other foot may be positioned

anywhere within the designated 36-

inch lane space until the ball has

been released.

Players in Lane Spaces

(9-1-3g)

On a free throw, players in the lane spaces

are allowed to enter the lane upon the release

of the ball by the free thrower.

All other players behind the free throw line

extended and the three point line, including

the free thrower, are required to wait until the

free throw touches the ring or backboard or

the free throw has ended before entering the

lane.


Free Throw Provisions

Rule 9-1-3g

Free throw restrictions apply to players in the marked lane

spaces until the ball is released by the free thrower; and for

the free-thrower or players outside of marked lane spaces

until the ball touches the ring or backboard or the free throw

ends.

LEGAL ILLEGAL LEGAL

Contact

(10-12) New

The following acts constitute a foul when

committed against a ball handler/dribbler:

• Placing two hands (front/back of hand) on

the player

• Placing an extended arm bar (forearm that

is away from the body) on the dribbler

• Placing and keeping a hand on the dribbler

• Contacting the player more than once with

the same hand or alternating hands.


Contact

Rule 10-6-12 (New)

A personal foul is must be ruled when illegal contact occurs

on a player holding or dribbling the ball.

Post Play

Question: Do the rules involving

ballhandler/dribbler contact involve only plays

that develop and occur outside of the lane

area?

Answer: The rule is intended for all players

regardless of where they are. The NFHS does

not have that special rule about the lane area

as the NCAA does.

Post Play

Question: What are the directions for

officiating a post player outside the lane

versus inside the lane with back to the basket

and the ball? Is two hands on a post player

considered an “automatic”?

Answer: A post player with the ball is a

ballhandler; regardless of where he or she is

standing. Two hands on the player is an

automatic foul.

Offensive Player Play

Question: Offensive player A1 drives to the

basket and extends his or her arm so that it is

in constant contact with B1 (basically holding

off the defender). Would such contact

constitute a foul?

Answer: An extended arm in contact with an

opponent by the offensive person in

possession of the ball is a player-control foul.



NFHS Basketball

2014-15

Major Editorial Changes

Pantone Matching System (PMS)

(1-12a)

The basketball’s solid color shall be

Pantone Matching System (PMS)

Orange 151, Red-Orange 173 or

Brown 1535.


Ball

Rule 1-12a

The change specifies the ball color using Pantone Matching

System numbers for the three colors allowed, effective

2019-20.

BROWN 1535 RED-ORANGE 173 ORANGE 151



NFHS Basketball

2014-15

Points of Emphasis

Announcer Responsibilities

The announcer shall be prohibited

from making an announcement:

• while the clock is running and

• while the clock is stopped and

the ball is live…such as during a

free throw, a throw in, etc.

Doing so could potentially affect

communication between coaches

and players or be disconcerting.


The announcer shall be prohibited from

interrupting the game through the use of

the microphone unless there is an

emergency.

Announcements or comments shall be

made during those times when there is

a stoppage of the clock and the ball is

not live, such as time outs, between

quarters, pre-game, half time and post

game.


The announcer is allowed to announce

basic information that does not potentially

affect the play in general, the players, the

coaches, or the officials. The announcer’s

information is not official information and

could be misinformation shared with all.

Appropriate training of announcers by

school personnel and proper pre-game

instructions by the referee are necessary.

May be Announced - Examples:

Player who scored

Player charged with foul

Player attempting free throw

Team granted a time out

Length of time out: 30 seconds or 60

seconds

Player entering game

Team Rosters

Shall not be Announced –

Examples:

Number of points player scored

Number of fouls on player

Number of team fouls

Number of team time outs or number

remaining

Time remaining in the quarter/game

Type of foul or violation

Emphatic 2 or 3 point goal


The announcer’s role does not include

“cheering the home team on” or

otherwise inciting the crowd. Doing so

is common at other levels of athletic

events. But high school athletics is

different because sports are

educationally based.

In a very real sense, the public address

announcer at a high school event is a

“Champion of Character”.


He/she can influence the atmosphere of

the contest by what is said and how it is

said.

The announcer who performs

professionally promotes good

sportsmanship by what he/she says and

how he/she acts upon saying it.


Announcer

The announcer shall be prohibited from making additional

announcements during the game that can easily be seen on

a scoreboard and beyond the normal realm of

announcements.

Correctable Error:

Officials may correct an error if a rule is

inadvertently set aside and results in:

• Failure to award a merited free throw.

• Awarding an unmerited free throw.

• Permitting a wrong player to attempt a free

throw.

• Attempting a free throw at the wrong

basket.

• Erroneously counting or cancelling a score.


Correctable Errors

Five errors are recognized in the rules book. Officials are

granted the power within a certain window of time to make

these corrections.

Frontcourt and Backcourt Ball

Status:

The status of the ball when considering

whether it is in the frontcourt or

backcourt is determined by the location

of the object that the ball last touched

inbounds as long as there is team

control inbounds, be it a player, official

or the playing court.

Frontcourt and Backcourt Status

The location of a player is determined

by where the player is touching the floor

or, in the case of the airborne player,

where the player was last in contact with

the floor.

Ball Status

When an airborne player gains possession

of the ball during a throw in or a jump ball,

the player is considered to have no status

as related to frontcourt or backcourt if

he/she (and only that player) returns to the

floor possessing the ball.

The location where he/she lands will

determine the location of the player and

the ball.


Frontcourt and

Backcourt Status

Until a player gains control of the ball during a throw-in or

jump ball, there is no frontcourt or backcourt status. When

possession is gained, location of the player determines

frontcourt or backcourt status of the ball.


Status:

The ball is considered to remain in

the backcourt while a player is

dribbling the ball until both feet of

that player and the ball have been

in contact with the frontcourt.


Backcourt

Rule 9-9-1

Clarified example of a backcourt violation.


Frontcourt and

Backcourt Status

In (1), the player with her pivot foot (right foot) in the

backcourt can pivot the left foot into the frontcourt and then

to the backcourt in (2) without committing a violation. In (3),

the player uses her front foot or left foot as her pivot foot and

pivots into the frontcourt. However, when she now touches

the backcourt in (4), it is a violation.


Status:

It is recommended to review case

plays 4-4-1 and 9-9-1, Situations A-

E, in the Case Book.

These cases present situations that

assist in explaining the status of the

ball and player when considering

backcourt violations.

Team Control Status During Throw in;

Team Control Status Inbounds

Since a 2011-12 rule change, team control

exists during a throw in when the thrower

in has the ball at her/his disposal.

The change was made ONLY to eliminate

the penalty of administering free throw(s)

when a teammate of the thrower in

commits a common foul during the throw in

Team Conrol Status Inbounds

The change made the penalty

consistent with the penalty for other

team control fouls.

The penalty now is the awarding of a

throw in to the opposing team at the

spot out-of-bounds nearest to where the

foul occurred.

Team Control Status During Throw in;

Team Control Status Inbounds

NOTE:

Team control during a throw in is not intended

to be equated to player control status

inbounds which creates team control status

inbounds.

During the throw in, 10-seconds, 3-seconds,

frontcourt status, backcourt status, closely

guarded, etc. are not factors as there has yet

to be player control/team control status

obtained inbounds.


Team Control

on Throw-In

A team is in control of the ball when the ball is at the

disposal of the player for the throw-in. The penalty for a

common foul committed by the throw-in team is a team-

control foul and does not warrant free-throw shots.


2014-15 CIF Rule Modifications

CIF Modifications

GIRLS MODIFICATION (1600) The National Federation Basketball Rules shall be

modified for girls’ basketball as follows: Utilization of 30-second shot clock. No 10 second rule in backcourt. Utilization of five-second count for holding the

ball only.

CIF Modifications

BOYS MODIFICATION (1601) The National Federation Basketball Rules shall

be modified for boys’ basketball as follows: A. Utilization of a 35-second shot clock.

UNIFORMS (1602)

The National Federation boys and girls uniform

rules shall be waived to allow for the wearing of

a shirt with diagonal or tailed lettering at the non-

varsity level.

THREE-PERSON OFFICIATING (1603)

Three-person officiating teams may be used at all games in every round of the State basketball tournament.

OFFICIAL NATIONAL FEDERATION

AUTHENTICATION MARK (1604) Only balls with the National Federation

authentication mark shall be used in the sports of

basketball.

CIF Modifications

COACHES’ BOX (1605)

A 14-foot coaches’ box will be utilized.

MERCY RULE (1607) When at the conclusion of the third quarter, or

any point thereafter, if there is a point

differential of forty (40) or more points, a

running clock shall be instituted for the

remainder of the game, regardless of the score.

This applies to all levels of play.

Coaches may mutually request a running clock

prior to the beginning of the fourth quarter if the

point differential is 40 or more points.

CIF Modifications


CIF Basketball

Concussion

Procedure Guideline

Concussion Procedure (2-8-5; 3-3-8)

• Procedure requires an athlete exhibiting signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion be removed from the contest.

CIF Concussion Management (Cont. By Laws 313)

1. A student-athlete who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury in a practice or game shall be removed from competition at that time for the remainder of the day.

2. A student-athlete who has been removed from play may not return to play until the athlete is evaluated by a licensed health care provider trained in education and management of concussion and receives written clearance to return to play from that health care provider. (Approved May 2010 Federated Council)

CIF Concussion Management

3. On a yearly basis, a concussion and head injury information sheet shall be signed and returned by all athletes and the athlete’s parent or guardian before the athlete’s initiating practice or competition. (Revised May 2012 Federated Council)

4. The “scope of practice” for licensed health care providers and medical professionals is defined by California state statues.

5. This scope of practice will limit the evaluation to a medical doctor (MD) or doctor of osteopathy (DO).

CIF Concussion Management

6. Note: Case Play 2.8.5 will not apply in California. Once removed, player may not return for remainder of day.

7. http://www.nfhslearn.com – Courses Free Courses Concussion

Free Courses on NFHSLearn.com

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