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2011-12 AND 2012-13 MEN'S AND WOMEN'S RULES - NAIA

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RULE 4 / DEFINITIONS<br />

Art. 5. A disqualified player shall be replaced within a 20-second time limit. A<br />

horn shall be sounded both 15 seconds before the expiration of this time limit and<br />

at the end of the time limit, with the latter horn indicating that play shall resume.<br />

Section 21. Dribble<br />

Art. 1. A dribble is ball movement caused by a player in control who bats, pushes<br />

or taps the ball to the playing court once or several times.<br />

Art. 2. The dribble may be started by pushing, throwing, tapping or batting the<br />

ball to the playing court.<br />

Art. 3. During a dribble, the ball may be batted into the air, provided that it is<br />

permitted to strike the playing court one or more times before the ball is touched<br />

again with either hand.<br />

Art. 4. The dribble ends when:<br />

a. The dribbler catches or carries/palms the ball by allowing it to come to rest<br />

in one or both hands;<br />

b. The dribbler touches the ball with both hands simultaneously;<br />

c. An opponent bats the ball; or<br />

d. The ball becomes dead.<br />

Art. 5. An interrupted dribble occurs when the ball is loose after deflecting off the<br />

dribbler or after it momentarily gets away from the dribbler.<br />

Art. 6. During an interrupted dribble, there shall be no player control, and the<br />

following cannot occur:<br />

a. Player-control foul;<br />

b. Granting of a timeout request; or<br />

c. (Men) Five-second closely guarded dribbling violation.<br />

Section 22. Dunk<br />

A dunk is a try for goal that occurs when any player gains control of a ball that<br />

is neither in the cylinder nor on the ring and then attempts to drive, force or stuff<br />

the ball through the basket.<br />

Section 23. Ejection<br />

Art. 1. Ejection is the act of immediate dismissal of an individual from<br />

participation in a game because of a specific infraction of the rules.<br />

a. In addition to being disqualified, an individual who is ejected shall leave<br />

the playing court and floor area and report to his or her team’s locker room<br />

until the game is over.<br />

Art. 2. The following shall result in automatic ejection:<br />

a. Committing a flagrant 2 personal or flagrant 2 technical foul;<br />

b. Incurring the maximum number or combination of technical fouls;<br />

c. Participating in a fight;<br />

d. Leaving the bench area during a fight situation as bench personnel but not<br />

participating in the fight; or<br />

e. Participating after having been disqualified for a reason other than<br />

ejection.

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