NFHS Basketball rules Study Guide Questions
and Correct Answers
1). How big is the coaching box?
Ans: 28 feet
2). How long is a court?
Ans: 84 feet
3). Jurisdiction does not until:
Ans: all officials are off the floor (not just one)
4). Referee needs to tell other team to be on the floor:
Ans: Three minutes prior to game start
5). What if illegal equipment is found after both coaches verified at pregame meeting?
Ans: Player can be subbed out and take it off and then re-enter without penalty
6). What does the rule book say the official can do with hasty spectors?
Ans: May assess technical fouls to that team but must use with extreme discretion
7). Any technical foul charged to bench personnel is also indirectly charged to the:
Ans: head coach
8). What gets a coach ejected:
Ans: Three indirects/two directs
9). What gets a player ejected?
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, Ans: Two technicals or one flagrant
10). Concussion management: player gets banged up and leaves game and returns later?
Ans: Officials should assume that he/she has received proper attention and allow to
reenter
11). Correctable error: team a gets fouled by team b and should be shooting 1+1. however, the
ball is given out of bounds and they score on the throw-in. once team b gets the ball, it is
discovered that team a should have been shooting. what's the ruling?
Ans: Points for Team A still count and they get a 1+1 without anybody in the lane. It will
be Team B ball on the baseline because there was a change of possession which is the
point of interruption
12). Correctable error: team a is awarded 2 bonus free throws for team b's 10th foul. the shooter
misses the first one and makes the second. however, it is discovered when team b is
inbounding that it was actually only their 9th team foul. what is the ruling?
Ans: Remove the point scored and go alternating possession arrow at the division line
because either team could've had the rebound on the attempted free throws
13). Errors can be corrected until:
Ans: The ball becomes live for the second time after error was made
14). Once an overtime starts?
Ans: It must finish
15). A team can only go under five players when:
Ans: No other substitutes are available, this means when a team plays with four, the
other may not go down to four to play "fair"
16). When does the scorebook need to be official with no new players added?
Ans: 10 minutes before the start of the game (Technical foul assessed if so)
17). What happens when a player enters that is not in scorebook?
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and Correct Answers
1). How big is the coaching box?
Ans: 28 feet
2). How long is a court?
Ans: 84 feet
3). Jurisdiction does not until:
Ans: all officials are off the floor (not just one)
4). Referee needs to tell other team to be on the floor:
Ans: Three minutes prior to game start
5). What if illegal equipment is found after both coaches verified at pregame meeting?
Ans: Player can be subbed out and take it off and then re-enter without penalty
6). What does the rule book say the official can do with hasty spectors?
Ans: May assess technical fouls to that team but must use with extreme discretion
7). Any technical foul charged to bench personnel is also indirectly charged to the:
Ans: head coach
8). What gets a coach ejected:
Ans: Three indirects/two directs
9). What gets a player ejected?
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, Ans: Two technicals or one flagrant
10). Concussion management: player gets banged up and leaves game and returns later?
Ans: Officials should assume that he/she has received proper attention and allow to
reenter
11). Correctable error: team a gets fouled by team b and should be shooting 1+1. however, the
ball is given out of bounds and they score on the throw-in. once team b gets the ball, it is
discovered that team a should have been shooting. what's the ruling?
Ans: Points for Team A still count and they get a 1+1 without anybody in the lane. It will
be Team B ball on the baseline because there was a change of possession which is the
point of interruption
12). Correctable error: team a is awarded 2 bonus free throws for team b's 10th foul. the shooter
misses the first one and makes the second. however, it is discovered when team b is
inbounding that it was actually only their 9th team foul. what is the ruling?
Ans: Remove the point scored and go alternating possession arrow at the division line
because either team could've had the rebound on the attempted free throws
13). Errors can be corrected until:
Ans: The ball becomes live for the second time after error was made
14). Once an overtime starts?
Ans: It must finish
15). A team can only go under five players when:
Ans: No other substitutes are available, this means when a team plays with four, the
other may not go down to four to play "fair"
16). When does the scorebook need to be official with no new players added?
Ans: 10 minutes before the start of the game (Technical foul assessed if so)
17). What happens when a player enters that is not in scorebook?
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