Officiating Progression:

Week 1 & 2: Officials focus on obvious personal fouls & violations:

·  Pushing – Contact that displaces an opponent.

·  Holding – Contact that interferes with a player’s freedom of movement

·  Illegal Use of Hands – Extending hands into another players space causing illegal contact

·  Held Ball – In order to avoid a prolonged and/or violent tussle, the referee stops the action and awards the ball to one team or the other on a rotating basis, when two players gain possession of the ball at the same time.

Weeks 3 & 4: Officials will progress to also include the following violations:

·  Double Dribble – Dribbling the ball with both hands on the ball at the same time or picking up the dribble and then dribbling again is a double dribble.

·  Backcourt Violation – Once the offense has brought the ball across the mid-court line, they cannot go back across the line during possession. If they do, the ball is awarded to the other team to pass inbounds.

Weeks 5 & 6: Officials will progress to also include the following fouls & violations:

·  Walking / Traveling – Taking more than ‘a step and a half’ without dribbling the ball and/or moving a players pivot foot once they have stopped dribbling is traveling.

·  Charging – An offensive foul that is committed when a player pushes or runs over a defensive player. The ball is given to the team that the foul was committed upon.

·  Illegal pick/screen – When an offensive player is moving during a screen. When an offensive player sticks a limb and makes physical contact with a defender in an attempt to block the path of the defender.

Weeks 7 & 8: Officials will progress to also include the following fouls & violations:

·  Blocking – Blocking is illegal personal contact resulting from a defender not establishing position in time to prevent an opponent’s drive to the basket.

·  Inbound Time Restrictions – A player passing the ball inbounds has 5 seconds to pass the ball. If he/she does not, then the ball is awarded to the other team.

Weeks 9 & 10: Officials will progress to also include the following fouls & violations:

·  Carrying / Palming - When a player dribbles the ball with his hand too far to the side of or, sometimes, even under the ball.

·  Hand Checking – Contact by a defense on a ball-handler that impedes a player’s speed, quickness, rhythm, and/or balance.

·  Loose Ball Foul – When neither team is in possession of the ball, the fouled player’s team is awarded possession of the ball to pass inbounds from the out-of-bounds point nearest to the foul. The shot clock is reset.

Personal Foul Penalties:

·  Free Throws – If a player is fouled while shooting a three point shot and they miss their shot, three free throws are awarded. If a player is fouled while shooting a three point shot and makes the goal, he/she is awarded one free throw. Thus, he could score four points on the play.

·  One & One – If the team committing the foul has seven or more fouls in the game then the player who was fouled is awarded one free throw. If he/she makes the first shot, then he/she is awarded a second free throw.

·  Ten or More Fouls – If the team committing the foul has ten or more fouls, then the fouled players receives two free throws.