NFHS Basketball Exam Part 1 Questions and Answers Updated 2026/2027 Version | Verified Answers

NFHS Basketball Exam Part 1 Questions and Answers Updated 2026/2027 Version | Verified Answers 1. True - ANSWER The resumption-of-play procedure may be used when the throw-in team fails to make a thrower available. 2. True - ANSWER The tap from a player toward a team's own basket ends in exactly the same manner as a try 3. False - ANSWER The traveling and dribbling rules are in effect for the thrower during a throw-inb 4. True - ANSWER There is no player control during an interrupted dribble, but there is team control. 5. False - ANSWER There is player control during a try or tap 6. True - ANSWER When a technical foul is also charged indirectly to the head coach, it counts only as one team foul 7. True - ANSWER When play is resumed by a throw-in after a double foul occurs, it takes place at the spot nearest to where the ball was located. 8. True - ANSWER Extra periods are an extension of the fourth quarter. 9. False - ANSWER If a technical foul penalty is administered to end the fourth quarter and the score is tied, the throw-in portion of the penalty will begin the extra period. 10. False - ANSWER Teams shall change baskets for each extra period played 11. False - ANSWER All common fouls in the last two minutes of the game are automatically intentional. 12. True - ANSWER A player-control foul is common foul committed by a player while he or she is in control of the ball or by an airborne shooter. 13. True - ANSWER A team-control foul is a common foul committed by a player while his/her team is in control of the ball. 14. False - ANSWER An intentional foul can only occur during a live ball. 15. True - ANSWER An intentional foul should be called when illegal contact occurs away from the ball specifically designed to stop the clock. 16. True - ANSWER Continuous motion does not apply if a teammate fouls after a player has started a try for a goal and before the ball is in flight. 17. True - ANSWER Faking being fouled is an example of an unsporting foul. 18. False - ANSWER If B1 fouls A1, and before the clock starts B2 fouls A2, it is a false multiple foul. 19. False - ANSWER The swinging of the arms and elbows excessively is an automatic intentional foul 20. True - ANSWER Use of profanity by a player is an unsporting act 21. True - ANSWER An unsporting foul consists of unfair, unethical or dishonorable conduct 22. True - ANSWER A free throw ends when it is certain the try will not be successful. 23. True - ANSWER A free throw ends when the ball is bounced off the floor by the free thrower in an attempt to have it enter the basket. 24. True - ANSWER A substitute for the offended team may enter the game and attempt the second free throw awarded for a technical foul. 25. False - ANSWER A substitute throw is awarded if A2 violates, but A1's attempt is successful. 26. True - ANSWER A substitute throw is awarded if B1 violates and A1's attempt is unsuccessful. 27. True - ANSWER A1's free throw ends when A1's foot breaks the vertical plane of the edge of the free-throw line farthest from the basket before the try touches the ring or backboard or before the free throw has ended. 28. True - ANSWER Any player, other than the free thrower, who does not occupy a marked lane space must be behind the free-throw line extended and behind the three-point line. 29. True - ANSWER Award free thrower A1 a substitute throw, when during an unsuccessful free-throw attempt, B1 disconcerts A1 and A1 then violates. 30. False - ANSWER Both free throws awarded for a single technical foul must be attempted by the same player. 31. False - ANSWER During a free throw, a player in a marked lane space is permitted to break the vertical plane of any boundary line with a foot, provided that foot does not subsequently make contact with the court outside the marked lane space. 32. True - ANSWER Following a time-out or intermission, A1's free throw shall be administered even though Team B is not occupying each of the lane spaces adjacent to the end line. 33. True - ANSWER Free-throw restrictions simultaneously end for the free thrower and players who are not in marked lane spaces. 34. True - ANSWER A ball that is in contact with two players is in the backcourt if either player is touching the backcourt.