1. The alternating possession arrow indicator on the scoreboard is sufficient for the conducting the game to indicate the team entitled to the next AP arrow. T-F

2. In all situations the Referee chooses the game ball provided by the home team and cannot choose a ball from the visiting team. T-F

3. A captain of a team or the head coach may request a time out or ask permission from an official to leave the court. T-F

4. Basket Interference or Goal-Tending during a free throw is a technical foul. T-F

5. The limit for successive time outs during any dead ball is two. T-F


Answers:
1. False- 1-16.
2. False-1-12-3.
3. False- 3-1-2.
4. False-10-4-9.
5. False-4-43-2.

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​NFHS Edition
1. A team may use an electronic device to communicate with players on the court. T-F

2. A situation in which two or more teammates commit personal fouls against the same opponent at the same time is known as a multiple foul. T-F
 
3. Dizziness is a sign of a player having a concussion and the player shall be removed from the game. T-F

4. A1 purposely obstructs B1’s vision by waving or placing hand(s) near their eyes. The trail official rules a technical foul on A1. T-F

5. Each team shall warm up and shoot during the first half at the basket farthest from their bench. T-F


Answers:
1. False-1-19, 10-1-4- Penalty.
2. True- 4-19-11.
3. True- 2-8-5.
4. True- 10-4-6d
5. True-4-5-2.
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​“If they don’t ask, I’m not telling. The worst kind of advice is unsolicited advice.”


What’s your expectation of communication from a young referee with no credibility with a coach yet?
“Everybody at every level of every sport goes through that. I’ll just go back to when I was young, you want that credibility, you want that coach to want to talk to you. But you know what, I’ll put this together two fold. It’s like you go up to someone’s porch. You go up the stairs. You knock on the door. Are you going to walk in or are you going to allow them to open the door and ask you to come in? You’re going to do the second. If you do the first you’ve got problems. The reason I say that is, what can I do to make them open the door and let me in? I can do all the things I can control. I can hustle. I can listen. I can get my plays right. I’ll say that lastly, if you’re getting your plays right, trust me, that will alleviate a lot of problems. Now you ask, how do you communicate? When there are times to put yourself by the coach, where you’re supposed to be and they want to talk, answer their questions. Talk basketball talk. Make it short and precise. Don’t be the guy to go over there and start initiating conversation, unless you’re trying to say help me out with 24 or something like that. You’re just asking for trouble. Again, it takes time to get that credibility. But again, listening, hustling, being a good partner, and getting your plays right. It’s amazing how that can help get your credibility built up a lot faster with any coach.”


Listening, hustling, being a good partner, and getting your plays right. It’s amazing how that can help get your credibility built up a lot faster with any coach.
-Mike Eades


How do you handle coaches that are unfamiliar with you that are trying to feel you out/push your buttons?
“If a coach didn’t know me and again this is when I’d figured things out, a little bit further in my career, and they would start getting after me about you know, they’re testing me and they’re going after me too hard about a 50/50 play. I’d get to them and I’d say hey coach, can I say something. This is when I’m going to initiate the conversation because he’s made me do that. ‘I know you don’t know me that well and that’s fine. Give me a chance to referee, give me a chance, but if you’re going to continue to come after me like that we’re going to have to come to a resolution that you’re probably not going to like. So give me a chance to referee. You want to talk, just ask me. I’ll answer your questions, but you’re going to have to stop.’ If you don’t back a coach off somehow, they’ll keep coming at you and they’re going to make you look bad…To finalize that question, you’ve got to take a stand. You have to take a stand. Be firm. Don’t yell. Don’t be waving your hands. Just talk to them firmly. Tone of voice is a tremendous thing to have. When you change your tone, they know something is up…They don’t always like it, but they’ll respect that strength that you handle them with and so will your peers and the opposing coach. 


On communicating with coaches:
“This is a good way, process of dealing with a coach. How you communicate. You go over there in listening mode. That’s how I start. I’m gonna listen and then I’m going to communicate. My communication could be short or it could be basketball terminology, a little bit longer. That’s easy.”


On diffusing coaches:
“Say they start to get up here like this. When they do that, can I say or do something to diffuse that situation? I think that it is much harder to diffuse situations then to call a technical foul..When coaches start to get up here, they’re starting to lose it. When you can bring them back down, that’s good for the game. It takes everything off me, it takes everything off the coach, and we just keep playing.”


It’s amazing as you guys know, when you’re refereeing a game and the coaches are coaching and the players are playing and we’re just refereeing and the fans are fanning. It goes a lot better. 
-Mike Eades


On admitting when you’re wrong:
“If you always want to act like you’re always right your credibility is going down because you’re not always right…If you always think you’re right, your room for growth is stunted because you’re not always right. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to tell a coach or a player, ‘you know what man, I probably missed that. My bad.’ What can they say? They’ll tap you on the butt or give you a little nod…Perception looks good. You’ve got a little rapport built up with that player and/or coach. Next time you’re in a situation like that, the chances of it going smoothly are a lot better.”


On listening to and learning from veteran referees:
“What I would tell young guys is when you go to camps or you’re in games and the veteran guy tells you something, you just listen. Will it all make sense? No. Will it all fit you? No. Will it all always be right? No. But more often than not it will be. So take that knowledge.” 


On using social media as a referee:
“I’ll tell this to all the referees out there, if you do have social media you tweet or Facebook, you have to really be careful what you put out there about games you have reffed and you are going to ref. Again, that unsolicited information gets you in trouble. 

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​1. During a jump ball, the game clock starts when the ball is legally tapped. T-F

2. During a jump ball, the ball becomes live when the ball leaves the tossers hand(s). T-F

3. On a designated spot throw-in, A1 moves backwards six feet before releasing the ball. The trail official rules a throw-in violation. T-F

4. A1 catches the ball securely while airborne and lands on one foot followed by the other. The first foot to touch the floor after the catch becomes the pivot foot. T-F

5. A1 is awarded one free throw after being fouled in the act of shooting and scoring a goal. No teammates of A1 choose to line up in any of the four marked lane spaces. Officials allow B1, B2, B3 to line up in marked lane spaces, all on the same side of the lane. This line-up is legal. T-F


Answers:
1. True- 5-9-2.
2. True- 6-2-a
3. False- 4-42-6
4. True-4-44-2-2.
5. True- 8-1-4.

NFHS Edition

1. The official uniform can be a gray shirt or a black and white striped shirt. T-F

2. B1 fouls A1. Prior to the clock starting A2 fouls B2. This is a double foul. T-F

3. A technical foul is ruled prior to start of the game. A6 reports for starter A5 to shoot the technical free throws. Official allows the substitution?  T-F

4. Who designates the shooter for a technical foul:
A. The Head Coach.
B. The Captain of the offended team.
C. All of the Above.
5. A1’s throw-in pass becomes wedged between the ring and the back board. The trail official rules a throw-in violation. T-F


Answer:
1. False- 2-1-1.
2. False- 4-19-9.
3. True- 8-3.
4. C- 8-3.
5. True- 9-2-8

1. A’1 try is in flight, the center official inadvertently blows their whistle. The try is unsuccessful. The game will be resumed with the AP Arrow. T-F

2. A1’s try is in flight, the center official inadvertently blows their whistle. The try is successful. The game will be resumed with Team B’s ball on the end line and Team B will be entitled to run the end line. T-F

3. A player is out of bounds when he/she touches the floor or any object other than player/person, on or outside a boundary. T-F

4. The ball is out of bounds when it passes over a fan-shaped back board. T-F

5. The visiting team has choice of baskets to warm-up on. T-F.


Answers:
1. True-6-4-3-f.
2. True-4-36-1.
3. True- Rule-7-1.
4. False- Rule-7-2-b.
5. False- Rule-4-5-2.
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​NFHS Edition
1. Undershirts must be a single solid color similar to the torso of the jersey. T-F

2. During a throw-in, A2 touches the ball and allows the ball to be on the floor in the back court with no players attempting to pick it up. The trail official starts the “10” second count. T-F

3. The “10” second back court count starts when a player legally gains control of the ball. T-F

4. While A1’s free throw for a one-and-one is in flight, A2 and B2 commit a double personal foul. A1’s try is unsuccessful. The Center official resumes play with the Alternating Possession Procedure. T-F

5. While A1’s free throw for a one-and one is in flight. A2 and B2 commit a double personal foul. A1’s try is successful. The Center official resumes play with A1 attempting their second free throw. T-F


Answers:
1. True- 3-5-6
2. False-4-12-2, 9-8.
3. True-9-8
4. True- 4-36-2-c.
5. True-4-36-2-b.

1. A player is disqualified on the following:
A. “2” intentional personal fouls.
B. “1” unsportsmanlike technical foul and “1” intentional personal foul.
C. All of the Above.
D. None of the Above:

2. A Head Coach is disqualified by committing:
A. “2” Direct Technical Fouls.
B. “3” Indirect Technical Fouls.
C. A flagrant technical foul.
D. All of the Above.

3. If a disqualified player is not replaced within 15 seconds, the head coach is charged with a delay of game warning. T-F

4. A rectangular back board can be 6X4 or 6X3 1/2. T-F

5. A minimum of 9 balls must be available to each team for pre-game warmup. T-F


Answers:
 1. D- 4-14.
2. D- 10-6- Penalty-Note.
3. False- 10-6-2, 10-6-Penalty.
4. True-1-7-1.
5. False- 1-12.1. 

​NFHS Edition
1. Airborne shooter A1’s try is in flight when the horn sounds to end the 2nd quarter. After the horn sounds and before A1 returns to the floor, B1 fouls A1. The foul should be ignored. T-F

2. If the ball is in flight during a try or tap for field goal, the quarter or extra period ends when the try or tap ends. T-F

3. An airborne shooter is in the act of shooting until both feet return to the floor. T-F

4. A try ends :
A. When its successful.
B. When it touches a player.
C. When its unsuccessful.
D. When it touches the floor.
E. When the ball becomes dead.
F. A,C,D,E.
G. All of the Above.
5. A1’s try is in flight and the try touches the floor and the horn sounds. The ball goes in the basket. The center official cancels the goal. T-F


Answers:
1. False-5-6-2-Exception-1.
2. True-5-6-2-Exception-1.
3. False- 4.1.1- Case Book.
4. F- 4-41-4.
5. True- 5.1.1.-Situation-B-Case Book.