| Coaching Rule: |
| 1. |
The head coach may use electronic video communication equipment to communicate with players.
False |
| 2. |
An indirect technical foul is assessed to the head coach when bench personnel are charged with a technical foul.
True |
| 3. |
During a charged time-out, the head coach and assistant coaches may rise and confer with team personnel within the confines of the bench area.
True |
| 4. |
If the optional coaching box is being utilized, the first technical foul charged directly or indirectly to the head coach results in loss of the coaching-box privileges for the remainder of the game.
True |
| 5. |
The head coach is permitted to rise off the bench at any time to signal players to request a time-out.
True |
| 6. |
The head coach may leave the coaching box to go to the scorer's table to rectify a scoring mistake only if beckoned by an official.
False |
| 7. |
The head coach is assessed an indirect technical foul when a disqualified player is removed and is subsequently discovered participating in the game.
False |
| 8. |
The head coach is assessed a maximum of one direct technical foul when a player is discovered wearing an illegal uniform.
True |
| Correctable Errors: |
| 9. |
In order to correct an error made with the clock running and the ball dead, the error must be recognized before the first live ball after the error.
False |
| 10. |
A correctable error includes permitting the wrong team to attempt a throw-in.
False |
| 11. |
Only the referee is authorized to correct the erroneous awarding of a score.
False |
| 12. |
Correctable errors include failure to award a merited free throw.
True |
| 13. |
When the error is a free throw by the wrong player, if corrected, the free throw and any common foul committed during such a free throw shall be cancelled.
True |
| 14. |
The time consumed prior to recognition of a correctable error cannot be restored even though the error is corrected.
True |
| Court and Equipment: |
| 15. |
The visiting team has its choice of baskets for pregame practice and for the first half of play.
False |
| 16. |
A restraining line may be used as a boundary line when space is limited, and may extend the entire length or width of the court.
True |
| 17. |
The court is legally marked if a shadow line is used to designate the division line through the team mascot painted at center court.
True |
| 18. |
The three-point line is a semi-circle measured 19 feet 9 inches from a point directly below the center of the basket to the outside edge of the line.
True |
| 19. |
Lane spaces on each side of the free-throw lane are two feet deep.
False |
| 20. |
It is permissible to have the school logo or mascot on the face of the backboard.
False |
| Definitions: |
| 21. |
Continuous motion applies only if the player is in the air when fouled.
False |
| 22. |
An airborne shooter is considered to be in the act of shooting.
True |
| 23. |
Player control includes passing activity between teammates.
False |
| 24. |
A try for goal remains in control of the team whose player last had control until the try is either successful or unsuccessful.
False |
| 25. |
A player is officially disqualified and becomes bench personnel when the player is notified by an official.
False |
| 26. |
A dribble may be started by pushing, throwing or batting the ball to the floor before or after the pivot foot is lifted.
False |
| 27. |
A fumble is accidental loss of player control.
True |
| 28. |
A held ball occurs when an opponent places his or her hand(s) on the ball and prevents an airborne player from throwing the ball or releasing it on a try.
True |
| 29. |
Contact, which may result when opponents are in equally favorable positions to perform normal defensive and offensive movements, even though it may be severe, is legal.
True |
| 30. |
A jump ball ends when the tapped ball touches a jumper a second time.
False |
| 31. |
The throw-in ends when the passed ball touches, or is legally touched by, another player inbounds.
True |
| 32. |
The throw-in ends when the throw-in team commits a throw-in violation.
True |
| 33. |
A designated throw-in spot is 3 feet wide with no depth limitation.
True |
| Fouls: |
| 34. |
A personal foul can only occur during a live ball.
False |
| 35. |
If B1 fouls A1, and before the clock starts B2 fouls A2, it is a false multiple foul.
True |
| 36. |
An unsporting foul consists of unfair, unethical or dishonorable conduct.
True |
| 37. |
It is a common foul when B1 fouls A1 as A1 is trying for a field goal.
False |
| 38. |
All common fouls in the last two minutes of the game are automatically intentional.
False |
| 39. |
An intentional foul may be either personal or technical.
True |
| 40. |
An intentional foul should be called when illegal contact occurs away from the ball specifically designed to stop the clock.
True |
| 41. |
If airborne A1 passes the ball instead of shooting, and then illegal contacts B1, he or she has committed a team-control foul.
True |
| 42. |
A team-control foul can also be intentional or flagrant.
False |
| 43. |
In a false double foul, the fouls are committed by the same team.
False |
| Free Throws: |
| 44. |
A free throw starts when the appropriate lane spaces are filled and the free thrower is ready.
False |
| 45. |
A1's free throw ends when A2 commits a lane violation.
True |
| 46. |
The ball becomes live when it is at the free thrower's disposal.
True |
| 47. |
If the ball is to become dead when the last free throw of a penalty is unsuccessful, players shall not take positions along the free-throw lane.
True |
| 48. |
During a free throw, the lane areas from the end line up to, and including, the neutral-zone marks, shall be occupied by the defense.
False |
| 49. |
No teammate of the free thrower may occupy the first marked lane spaces that are above and adjacent to the neutral-zone markings.
True |
| 50. |
Opponents of the free thrower may never occupy the second marked lane spaces.
False |
| 51. |
Not more than one player may occupy any part of a marked lane space.
True |
| 52. |
The coach or captain shall designate which player(s) shall attempt the free throws for a technical foul.
True |
| 53. |
If the free throw for a personal foul, other than intentional or flagrant, is successful, the ball remains live.
False |
| Technical Fouls: |
| 54. |
If A1 grasps the ring to prevent injury, the grasping is ignored and no technical foul is charged.
True |
| 55. |
It is a technical foul if a player places a hand on the backboard to gain an advantage.
True |
| 56. |
It is a technical foul is B1 intentionally slaps or strikes A's backboard while A1's try is in flight.
True |
| 57. |
A technical foul is assessed if, due to confusion, A1 attempts a free throw to which he or she was not entitled.
False |
| 58. |
A technical foul can be assessed to a head coach for using profane language in the team huddle during a time-out.
True |
| 59. |
A technical foul shall be charged whenever bench personnel are standing while the clock is running.
False |
| 60. |
The head coach is assessed an indirect technical foul for each member of bench personnel who leaves the confines of the bench during a fight to get closer to the action.
False |
| 61. |
When an entire team is wearing illegal jerseys, only one team technical foul is assessed.
False |
| 62. |
When an entire team is wearing illegal headbands, a technical foul is assessed directly to the head coach.
False |
| 63. |
It is a technical foul if a player leaves the court for an unauthorized reason.
False |
| Throw-ins: |
| 64. |
The throw-in is at the designated spot nearest the violation after a goaltending violation by B1.
False |
| 65. |
If a thrower-in does not have a minimum of 3 feet of unobstructed space, the administering official shall impose an imaginary restraining line.
True |
| 66. |
When the throw-in team violates the provisions of the throw-in, the opponents are awarded the ball for a throw-in at the original throw-in spot.
True |
| 67. |
Once the ball has been released by the thrower, opponents may break the throw-in boundary plane.
True |
| 68. |
The thrower may reach the ball through the throw-in boundary plane prior to releasing it on a throw-in pass.
True |
| 69. |
The thrower-in is not permitted to touch the ball in the court before it touches another player.
True |
| 70. |
When an untouched throw-in enters the thrower's goal, two or three points are scored, depending on the spot of the throw-in.
False |
| 71. |
Once a designated spot throw-in begins, the original thrower may be replaced by a teammate to attempt the throw-in.
False |
| Time-outs: |
| 72. |
Only one unused time-out from regulation may be carried over to an overtime period.
False |
| 73. |
After a team has used its allotted number of time-outs, any subsequent time-out request should be ignored.
False |
| 74. |
Either team may be granted successive time-outs prior to expiration of playing time in the fourth quarter.
True |
| 75. |
Players may sit or stand during a 60-second time-out, but must remain in their bench area.
True |
| 76. |
An official may immediately suspend play when necessary to protect an injured player.
True |
| 77. |
The head coach or any assistant coach may orally or visually request and be granted a time-out.
False |
| 78. |
A2's time-out request may not be granted after free thrower A1 has the ball at his or her disposal.
False |
| 79. |
A team need only be in team control to request and be granted a time-out.
False |
| Uniforms-Player Equipment: |
| 80. |
The torso of the team jersey is an area from the base of the neck to the bottom of the jersey and from side insert to side insert.
True |
| 81. |
The torso of the team jersey shall be the same single solid color for all team members.
True |
| 82. |
It is legal for the home team to wear blue jerseys.
False |
| 83. |
The maximum width of the side seam inserts on the team jersey is 6 inches.
False |
| 84. |
The initials or jersey number of a recently deceased player may appear in a patch worn above the neckline or in the side insert of the jersey.
False |
| 85. |
Headbands and wristbands must be the same dominant color of the team jersey, white, black or beige.
True |
| 86. |
When worn, a team's headbands and wristbands must all be the same color.
True |
| 87. |
A headband is defined as any item that goes around the entire head.
True |
| 88. |
Wristbands may be a maximum of 4 inches and may be worn anywhere on the arm.
False |
| 89. |
An item used to control the hair must be the same dominant color of the team jersey, white, black or beige.
False |
| Violations: |
| 90. |
It is a violation if A1 jumps to try for goal, but realizing it will be blocked, drops the ball to the floor and starts a dribble.
True |
| 91. |
It is a violation if A1 dives for a loose ball and gains control on the floor.
False |
| 92. |
It is a violation to touch the ring while the ball is in the imaginary cylinder above the ring.
False |
| 93. |
It is basket interference if a pulled-down, movable basket ring contacts the ball before it returns to its original position.
True |
| 94. |
A1 violates when a pass by A1 touches B1 who is standing on a sideline.
False |
| 95. |
No violation occurs when during a throw-in by A1 following a goal, A2 goes out of bounds to receive a pass and attempt the throw-in.
True |
| 96. |
Excessive swinging of arms or elbows without contacting an opponent can be either a foul or a violation.
False |
| 97. |
Thrower A1 violates if he or she passes the ball so it is touched by A2, who is inbounds while the ball is on the out-of-bounds side of the throw-in boundary plane.
True |
| 98. |
No violation occurs when B1 uses his or her thigh to intentionally deflect a pass by A1.
False |
| 99. |
If jumpers A1 and B1 simultaneously commit jump-ball violations, the toss shall be repeated.
True |
| 100. |
It is a violation if from A's frontcourt A1 passes to A2, who jumped from A's backcourt, catches the ball while in the air and lands in A's frontcourt.
True |