Basketball exam

Basketball exam An alternating-possession throw-in results when: - ANS a. A held ball occurs. b. The ball goes out of bounds, as in 7-3. c. Simultaneous floor or free-throw violations occur. d. A live ball lodges between the backboard and ring or comes to rest on the flange, unless a free throw or throw-in follows. e. Opponents commit simultaneous goaltending or basket-interference violations. f. The point of interruption cannot be determined as in 4-36-2c. 6-4-3 Team A is awarded an alternating-possession throw-in. The arrow will be switched toward Team B in all of the following: - ANS The direction of the possession arrow is reversed immediately after an alternating-possession throw-in ends (as in 4-42-5). The opportunity to make an alternating-possession throw-in is lost if the throw-in team violates. If either team fouls during an alternating-possession throw-in, it does not cause the throw-in team to lose the possession arrow. If an opponent commits a violations during the throw-in, the possession arrow is postponed. 6-4-4; 6-4-5 The alternating-possession procedure is always used after a double personal foul. - ANS False 6-4-3 The alternating-possession procedure will be used after a simultaneous free-throw violation on the final attempt. - ANS True 9-1 Pen 3; 6-4-3c An alternating-possession throw-in results when the last part of a false double foul is a technical foul. - ANS True 7-5-6a; 8-5-2; 8-6-2 An alternating-possession throw-in results when a pass from A1 to A2 touches an official and then goes directly out of bounds. - ANS False 4-4-4; 7-2-1 If the ball is simultaneously touched by inbounds opponents near a boundary line and then goes out of bounds before the alternating-possession procedure has been established, play will be resumed with a jump ball in the center circle. - ANS True 6-4-3 Note If B1 commits a common foul during the opening jump ball to start the game, alternating-possession control is established when thrower A1 has the ball at his/her disposal. - ANS True 4-3-3c During an alternating-possession throw-in by A1, B2 intentionally kicks the throw-in pass. The alternating-possession arrow should not point toward B's basket. - ANS False 6-4-4; 4-42-5 An indirect technical foul is assessed to the head coach when bench personnel is charged with a technical foul. - ANS True 10-4 Penalty Assistant coaches may stand to confer with bench personnel during any dead-ball period. - ANS True 10-4-4 During a charged time-out, the head coach and assistant coaches may rise and confer with team personnel within the confines of the time-out area. - ANS True 10-4-4c When the optional coaching box is being utilized, the first technical foul charged directly or indirectly to the head coach results in the loss of coaching-box privileges for the remainder of the game. - ANS True 10-5-1a The head coach is assessed a direct technical foul in all of the following situations: - ANS A. Permitting team members to leave the bench area and/or playing court for an unauthorized reason. B. Permitting a team member to participate while wearing an illegal uniform. C. Permitting a team member to participate after being removed from the game for disqualification. D. Failing to replace or remove a disqualified or injured player within 20 seconds when a substitute is available. 10-5 Which of the following is permitted to designate the center restraining circle? - ANS The edge of the circle shall be designated with a minimum of a 1/4 inch-wide single line but no wider than 2 inches. May use contrasting colored-floor areas instead of a line. 1-3-1 All of the following are true regarding a legal basketball: - ANS A. Its circumference shall be 29.5 to 30 in. for high school boys B. 28.5 to 29 in. for high school girls. C. Ball shall include the NFHS Authenticating Mark. D. Ball shall be the approved orange shade or natural color. E. Black rubber rib separating the panels shall not exceed 1/4 inch in width. 1-12-1 Backboard padding shall be a single solid color and shall be the same color on both backboards. - ANS True 1-9-1 It is a requirement to have an "X" marked on the floor in front of the official scorer. - ANS True 1-17 It is preferable to have 10 ft. of unobstructed space outside the boundaries, but there shall be at least 3 feet. - ANS False There may be less than 3 feet of unobstructed space outside of boundaries. 1-2 Music, both band and sound effects, shall only be permitted prior to a game, during time-outs, at intermission and post game. - ANS True 1-18 The ideal measurements for a high school basketball court are: - ANS 84 feet by 50 feet; but not greater than 94 feet by 50 ft. 1-1-1 The time-out area is an imaginary rectangle formed by the sideline (including the bench), end line, nearer free-thrwo lane line extended and the coaching-box line. - ANS True 1-13-3 All of the following result in an intentional foul: - ANS A. Contact that neutralizes an opponent's obvious advantageous position. B. Contact away from the ball with an opponent who is clearly not involved with a play. C. Contact that is not a legitimate attempt to play the ball/player specifically designed to stop the clock or keep it from starting. D. Excessive contact with an opponent while playing the ball. E. Contact with a thrower-in as in 9-2-10 Penalty 4 4-19-3 A player is in control of the ball when he/she is holding a live ball. - ANS True 4-12-6 Neither team control nor player control exists during a dead ball, a jump ball or when the ball is in flight during a try or tap for goal. Team control exists in all of the following situations: - ANS A. When a player of the team is in control. B. While a live ball is being passed among teammates. C. During an interrupted dribble. When a player of the team has disposal of the ball for a throw-in. 4-12-2 A closely-guarded count continues when a defensive switch occurs, provided the 6-foot distance is maintained. - ANS True 4-10 The closely-guarded distance is measured from the forward hand/arm of the defender to the forward hand/arm of the ball handler. - ANS False Forward foot/feet 4-10 Team A is in control while the ball is loose after B1 deflects a pass from A1 to A2. - ANS True Team control continues until: A. The ball is in flight during a try or tap for goal. B. An opponent secures control. C. The ball becomes dead. 4-12-3, 4 A dribble may be started by pushing, throwing, or batting the ball to the floor before the pivot foot is lifted. - ANS True 4-15-3 After the initial legal guarding position is established, the guard may be airborne provided he/she maintains inbounds status. - ANS True 4-23-3a Accidentally hitting an opponent's hand while he or she is holding the ball is a foul even though the hand is in contact with the ball. - ANS False It is legal use of hands to reach to block or slap the ball controlled by a dribbler or a player throwing for goal or a player holding it and accidentally hitting the hand of the opponent when it is in contact with the ball. 4-24-2 A held ball occurs when opponents have their hands so firmly on the ball that control cannot be obtained without rough play. - ANS True 4-25-1 All of the following result in a kicking violation: - ANS Kicking the ball is intentionally striking it with any part of the leg or foot. 4-29 When a player is touching in both frontcourt and backcourt, he or she is located in backcourt. - ANS True 4-35-2 Play is resumed at the point of interruption: - ANS A. Due to an official's inadvertent whistle, B. An interrupted game C. A correctable error D. A double personal, double technical, or simultaneous foul. The traveling and dribbling rules are in effect for the thrower during a throw-in. - ANS False 4-42-6 Note A team-control foul can also be intentional or flagrant. - ANS False A team-control foul is a common foul (personal that is neither flagrant nor intentional) committed by a member of the team that has team control. 4-19-7; 4-19-2 If airborne A1 passes the ball instead of shooting, and then illegally contacts B1, he or she has committed a team-control foul. - ANS True 4-19-7 A player-control foul is a common foul. - ANS True 4-19-6 Technical fouls include all of the following: - ANS A. A foul by a nonplayer. B. A noncontact foul by a player. C. An intentional or flagrant contact foul while the ball is dead, except a foul by an airborne shooter. D. A direct technical, charged to the head coach because of his/her actions, as in 10-5. E. An indirect technical, charged to the head coach as a result of a bench technical foul being assessed to team bench personnel. If two Team B players commit a multiple foul on A1 during an unsuccessful 3-point try, A1 is awarded four free throws. - ANS False 4-19-11; 10, Penalty 6b(2) A situation in which there is a foul by both teams at approximately the same time, but the fouls are not committed by opponents against each other, is known as: - ANS a simultaneous foul 4-19-10 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. - ANS True The ball becomes dead immediately. 4-11-3 A free throw ends: - ANS A. When the try is successful. B. When it is certain the try will not be successful. C. When the try touches the floor or any player. D. When the ball becomes dead. A substitute for the offended team may enter the game and attempt the second free throw awarded for a technical foul. - ANS True 8-3 A substitute free throw is awarded if during the free throw by A1, A2 violates and the attempt is unsuccessful. - ANS False 9-1 Penalty 1 A substitute free throw is awarded if during a free throw there is a simultaneous violation and the attempt is successful. - ANS False 9-1 Penalty 3 A1's free throw ends immediately when B1 commits a lane violation. - ANS False If the violation is by the free-thrower's opponent only: a. If the try is successful, the goal counts and the violation is disregarded. b. If the try is not successful, the ball becomes dead when the free throw ends, and a substitute throw shall be attempted by the same free thrower under conditions the same as for the free throw for which it is substituted. 9-1 Penalty 2 During a free throw, lane spaces may be occupied as follows: - ANS A. Marked lane spaces may be occupied by a max of 4 def. & 2 off. players. B. Lane areas from the end line up to, and including, the neutral-zone marks, shall remain vacant. C. First marked lane spaces on each side of the lane, above and adjacent to the neutral-zone marks, shall be occupied by opponents of the free thrower. No teammate of the free thrower shall occupy either of these marked lane spaces. D. The 2nd marked lane spaces on each side may be occupied by teammates of the free thrower. E. The 3rd marked lane spaces on each side, nearest the free thrower, may be occupied by the opponents of the free thrower. F. Players shall be permitted to move along and across the lane to occupy a vacant marked lane space within the limitations listed in this rule. G. Not more than 1 player may occupy any part of a marked lane spac.e During a free throw by A1, B3 goaltends. 1 point will be awarded and B3 will be charged with a technical foul. - ANS True 9-12 Penalty 1 10-3-9 Penalty Following a time-out or intermission, if free thrower A1 is not in the free-throw semicircle when the administering official is ready, a technical foul for delay is charged to A1. - ANS True 8-1-2 Free-throw restrictions simultaneously end for the free thrower and players who are not in marked lane spaces. - ANS True 9-1-4 If multiple free throws result from a single personal and a single technical foul, the free throws shall be attempted in the order in which the fouls occurred. - ANS True 8-6-2 It is a violation for the free thrower to purposely fake a try. - ANS True 9-1-3b The ball becomes live when it is at the free thrower's disposal. - ANS True 6-1-2c When A1 is injured and unable to attempt the free throws awarded for a personal foul, Team B's head coach may select A1's replacement free thrower. - ANS False Any teammate may attempt the throw(s) as selected by teh team captain or head coach. 8-2 While dribbling, the ball is still in Team A's backcourt if both of A1's feet are touching in the frontcourt, but the ball is touching the division line. - ANS True Ball is in the frontcourt when the ball and both feet of the dribbler touch the court entirely in the frontcourt. 4-4-6 The ball is in Team A's backcourt when A1, while holding the ball, is straddling the division line. - ANS True 4-4-1; 4-35-2 A team's frontcourt includes the division line. - ANS False Backcourt includes entire division line. 4-13 If A1 jumps from his/her frontcourt and lands in the backcourt, A1 is not considered to be located in either court while in the air. - ANS False The location of an airborne player with reference to the three factors of Article 1 is the same as the time such player was last in contact with the floor or an extension of the floor, such as a bleacher. 4-35-3 The thrower's opponents are given two warnings for violating the throw-in boundary plane after which a technical foul will be charged to the offending player. - ANS False One warning 9-2-10 Pen; 10-1-5c; 10-3-10 After B1's successful try, A1 attempts a throw-in from the end line and the ball is intentionally kicked by B2 who is standing in the lane. The end line throw-in following the violation will be a designated spot throw-in. - ANS True 7-5-7b B1 has violated if A1's throw-in deliberately strikes B1 in the leg and then rolls out of bounds. - ANS False The ball is caused to go out of bounds by the last player in bounds to touch it or be touched by it, unless the ball touches a player who is out of bounds prior to touching something out of bounds other than a player. 7-2-1 B1 reaches through the throw-in boundary plane and touches or dislodges the ball from thrower-in A1. What is the result? - ANS A technical foul on B1. 9-2 Pen 3 During a designated spot throw-in, thrower A1 must keep at least one foot on or over the spot until the ball is released. - ANS True 4-42-6 Note; 7-6-3 During a throw-in, B1 has violated if thrower A1 passes the ball into the court and it is first touched by B1 who has one foot on a boundary line. - ANS True 7-2-2; 9-2-2 The throw-in boundary plane is in force only for the opponent(s) of the thrower. - ANS False For the opponents and teammates. 9-2-3, 11 When an opponent of the thrower reaches through the throw-in boundary plane and contacts the thrower, it is a technical foul. - ANS False Intentional foul 9-2 Pen 4 It is a throw-in violation if the ball does not touch a player on the court within five seconds after the ball is at the disposal of the thrower. - ANS False Ball shall be released on a pass directly. 7-6-1; 9-2-4 It is a violation when A1's throw-in touches an official on the court and then is first touched by A1, who has stepped inbounds. - ANS True It must touch a player first 4-4-4; 9-2-6 Once the ball has been released by the thrower, opponents may break the throw-in boundary plane. - ANS True 9-2-10 Team A is considered in control when thrower A1 has the ball at his/her disposal for a throw-in. - ANS True 4-12-2d The three-second lane restriction is not in effect during a throw-in. - ANS True 9-7-1 Thrower A1 is in player control while holding the ball for a throw-in. - ANS False In team control 4-12-1, 2d, 6 True statements regarding charged time-outs. - ANS A. Time-outs shall be conducted within the confines of the time-out area. B. A 60-second time-out may be reduced in length if both teams are ready to play. C. During a 30-second time-out, players must remain standing. D. No on-court entertainment is permitted during a 30-second time-out. E. Teams are permitted thre A successive time-out is one that is granted to either team before the ball becomes live following the previous time-out. - ANS True 4-43-2 When each team is granted a time-out to keep a player in the game who was directed to leave because of injury/blood... - ANS ...the time-outs are administered concurrently. A team need only be in team control to request and be granted a time-out. - ANS True 5-8-3a A time-out shall not be granted until after the ball has become live to start the game. - ANS True 5-11-5 After a team has used its allotted number of time-outs, any subsequent time-out request should be ignored. - ANS False A time out can be granted, but it is a technical foul. 5-11-6 After expiration of playing time in the fourth quarter, Team A may be granted a time-out immediately after Team B has had one. - ANS False Successive time-outs shall not be granted after the expiration of playing time for the 4th quarter or any extra period. 5-11-7 Either team may be granted a time-out following a field goal and before a throw-in begins. - ANS True 5-8-3b; 6-7-1 No time-out is charged if a coach's request results in a correctable error being prevented or rectified. - ANS True 5-11-4 exc b; 5-8-4 Players may sit or stand during a 60-second time-out, but must remain in the time-out area. - ANS True 5-11-2; 1-13-3 A time-out is not charged if the request was granted because a player's shoelaces became untied. - ANS False No time-out is charged if, the player's request results from displaced eyeglasses or lens. 5-11-4 exc a If a player's shirt is not properly tucked inside the pants, the official shall direct him or her to leave the game unless the team is subsequently granted a time-out. - ANS False A player not wearing the pants/skirt properly and above the hips and/or a player not tucking in a team jersey (front and back) designed to be worn inside the pants/skirt, shall be directed to leave the game as in 3-3-4; a charged time-out shall not alter this requirement. 3-3-5 The torso of the team jersey shall be the same single solid color for all team members. - ANS True 3-4-1a All of the following are true statements regarding an arm compression sleeve. - ANS A. It must be white, black, beige or a single solid school color. B. It must be the same color for each team member. C. It must be worn for medical reasons. D. Its manufacturer's logo shall not exceed 2 1/4 square inches. 3-5-3 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. - ANS True 3-4-1b There are no color or design restrictions in the area of the team jersey from the imaginary line at the base of the neckline to the top of the shoulder. - ANS True There are no color/design restrictions in the area of the team jersey from the imaginary line at the base of the neckline to the top of the shoulder and in the corresponding area on the back of the jersey. 3-4-1d Only one visible manufacturer's logo/trademark/reference is permitted on the team jersey. - ANS False A visible manufacturer's logo/trademark/reference is not permitted on the team jersey. 3-4-2a Provided both players do not play at the same time, both 0 and 00 are legal numbers for team members. - ANS False A team member list shall not have both numbers 0 and 00. 3-4-3d When worn, a team's headbands and wristbands must all be the same color - ANS True 3-5-4a Beads, barrettes and bobby pins worn to control the hair are permitted, provided they are covered. - ANS False Rubber, cloth or elastic bands may be used to control hair. Hard items, including, but not limited to, beads, barrettes and bobby pins, are prohibited. 3-5-4d A substitute may enter between qquarters without being beckoned by an official. - ANS True 10-2-2 A substitute must report or be in position prior to the warning signal during a 30- or 60-second time-out. - ANS True 3-3-1a Substitutions between halves may be made by a team representative. - ANS True 3-3-1b The official shall grant a captain's request for a defensive match-up if three or more substitutes from the same team enter the game during a substitution opportunity. - ANS True 3-3-1e A substitute becomes a player when he or she legally enters the court to participate. - ANS True 3-3-3 A substitute who legally enters the game during a dead-ball period may not be withdrawn during that same dead-ball period. - ANS True 3-3-3, 4