2018-19 NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MOST MISSED QUIZ QUESTIONS
Quiz 1: Basket Interference and Goaltending Question 8 (38.75% correct): It is basket interference when a player touches the basket when the ball is within the cylinder above the ring. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is no. Rule 9-15.2.a.2 states that it is basket interference to touch the ball when the ball is within the cylinder above the ring. Touching the basket is basket interference when the player touches the ball or any part of the basket while the ball is on or within the basket (Rule 9-15.2.a.1), reaches through the basket from below and touches the ball before it enters the cylinder (Rule 9-15.1.a.3), or the player pulls down a moveable ring so that it contacts the ball before the ring returns to its original position (Rule 9-15.2.a.4).
Quiz 2: Jump Ball Question 1 (40.57% correct): When a jumper catches the jump ball, the opposing team is awarded the ball at the out-of-bounds spot nearest to the violation and the alternating-possession arrow is set towards the opponent’s basket. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is no. When the jumper catches the jump ball, she has committed a violation (Rule 9-8.1.b). The penalty is the awarding of a throw-in to the opposing team at a designated spot nearest to where the violation occurred (Rules 9-8 Penalty and 7-4.1). The illegal catching of the jump ball does not set the alternating-possession arrow. The alternating-possession arrow will be set when the ball is placed at the disposal of the thrower for the jump-ball violation (Rule 4-8.6.b) towards the basket of the team not awarded the throw-in.
Quiz 3: Definitions Question 3 (76.18% correct): The three-second lane is the area of the frontcourt that is bounded by the end line, the free-throw-lane lines, the free-throw line, and the lane-space blocks and marks. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is no. Rule 9-9.1 defines the three-second lane as the area in the frontcourt that is bounded by the end line, the free-throw lane lines, the free-throw line, and includes such lines. The lane-space blocks and marks are not part of the three-second lane.
Quiz 4: Rebounding Question 1 (98.67% correct): When a player is “blocking out” an opponent during rebounding action, she is attempting to prevent the opponent from getting a rebound without displacing that opponent. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is yes. This is taken directly from Appendix III (Rebounding, Definition, page 106 of the 2018-19 NCAA Women’s Basketball Rule Book). The definition discusses the difference between “blocking out”, which is legal, and “backing out”, which is displacement of an opponent and is illegal.
Quiz 5: Traveling Question 3 (71.63% correct): A1, while airborne, catches the ball in an attempt to prevent a live ball from going out of bounds. She throws the ball to the floor as her momentum carries her out of bounds. She returns to the playing court and continues to dribble. The official rules this a legal play. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is yes. A1’s securing control of the ball and subsequent throw starts a dribble (Rule 4-12.2). As her momentum carries her out of bounds, she has not committed a violation for leaving the playing court of her own volition and then being the first to touch the ball (Rule 9-3.1). A1 legally returns to the playing court and continues to dribble the ball, which is legal. Had A1 returned to the court, held the ball, and then dribbled, it would be a double-dribble violation because she ended her first dribble and started a second dribble (Rule 9-7.1).
Quiz 6: Fouls Question 1 (87.79% correct): Prior to the bonus being in effect for either team, A1 commits her fifth foul. Prior to her head coach being notified that A1 has been disqualified, A1 and B1 are assessed technical fouls. The officials rule that A1’s technical foul is not indirectly charged to her head coach; each team is assessed one team foul for A1’s and B1’s technical fouls and play will resume at the point of interruption. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is yes. A1 does not become bench personnel until the head coach is notified that she has committed her fifth foul (Rule 4-11.4). Since A1’s technical foul is committed before the head coach has been notified, she is not considered bench personnel and there is no indirect technical foul assessed to her team’s head coach.
Quiz 7: Courtside Monitor Question 3 (43.61% correct): Play is stopped for an out-of-bounds violation. During the dead- ball period, A1 is ruled to have committed an unsportsmanlike foul against B1, after which B1 shoves A1 and is assessed an unsportsmanlike foul. The officials decide to use the available courtside monitor to determine if there were any unobserved unsportsmanlike or contact disqualifying fouls. There is indisputable video evidence that A1 did not make any illegal contact with B1; however, A1 did taunt B1. Replay confirms that B1 committed an unsportsmanlike foul. The officials assess A1 with a player/substitute technical foul for the taunt of B1 and B1’s unsportsmanlike foul is confirmed. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is no. Rule 11-2.1.d.1 refers to fouls which involve contact (unsportsmanlike and contact disqualifying fouls), and when a foul is ruled by officials which does not rise to the level of either of these fouls, a personal foul may be assessed. When there is an unobserved foul, only an unsportsmanlike or contact disqualifying foul may be assessed. The only circumstance which permits a technical foul to be assessed occurs when a review for an unsportsmanlike or contact disqualifying foul determines that neither foul was committed and the offended player faked being fouled (Rule 11-2.1.d.6 and 10-12.3.a.8). In this play, the taunt by A1 may not be penalized due to a monitor review.
Quiz 8: Miscellaneous Situation Question 4 (60.89% correct): Play is stopped for an injured player on Team A. Team A’s head coach chooses to replace the injured player and provides a substitute within the required time. No substitutes have reported to the table prior to the injury. Prior to placing the ball at the disposal of Team B for a throw-in, B6 reports to the table. The officials do not permit B6 to enter. Is this correct?
Answer: The correct answer is yes. Rule 3-6.3.c permits substitutes who have reported to the scorer prior to the injured player’s replacement to enter the game (this rule also applies to other situations when a player is required to be replaced, such as disqualification, blood, or a lost, irritated, or displaced contact). This question is adapted from A.R. 69 (3), which addresses a player disqualified due to committing her fifth foul. The ruling is the same. Had B6 reported before the injured player’s substitute was beckoned by an official, B6 would have been permitted to enter the game.