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

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RULE 6 / LIVE BALL AND DEAD BALL
d. After a free-throw violation is committed by each team or technical foul
occurs when there is no team control.
e. A live ball lodges between the backboard and the ring or comes to rest on
the flange. (Exception: Rule 9-5.1.c.)
f. The ball becomes dead when neither team is in control and no goal or
infraction or end of a period is involved.
g. An inadvertent whistle occurs, and there is no player or team control.
Art. 2. The direction of the alternating-possession arrow shall be reversed
immediately after an alternating-possession throw-in ends. That throw-in shall
end when a passed ball touches or is legally touched by an inbounds player or
when a player, who is located on the playing court, touches and causes the ball to
be out of bounds or when the throw-in team commits a throw-in violation
Art. 3. The opportunity to make an alternating-possession throw-in shall be lost
when the throw-in team violates the throw-in provisions. (See Rule 9-5.)
Art. 4. A foul by either team during an alternating-possession throw-in shall not
cause the throw-in team to lose the alternating-possession arrow.
Section 4. Position for Jump Ball
Art. 1. For any jump ball, each jumper shall have both feet inside the half of the
center circle that is farther from his or her team’s basket.
Art. 2. Each jumper may face in either direction.
Art. 3. The referee or designee shall toss the ball upward between the jumpers
in a plane at right angles to the sidelines, to a height greater than either of the
jumpers can jump and so that the ball will drop between them. The jump ball may
be repeated when these provisions are not met.
Art. 4. When the ball touches the playing court without being touched by at least
one of the jumpers, the official shall toss the ball again.
Art. 5. The jump ball and these restrictions end when the ball touches one of the
eight non-jumpers, the playing court, the basket, the backboard or when the ball
becomes dead.
Section 5. Dead Ball
Art. 1. The ball shall become dead or remain dead when:
a. Any goal is made.
b. It is apparent that the free throw will not be successful on a free throw for
a technical foul or a false double foul or a free throw that is to be followed
by another free throw.
c. A held ball occurs or the ball lodges between the backboard and the ring
or comes to rest on the flange.
d. An official blows the whistle except when the try is in flight.
e. Time expires for a half or extra period.
f. An official blows the whistle when a foul is committed by a shooter’s
teammate before the ball is released for a try for goal.
g. An official blows the whistle when any floor violation (Rules 9-3 through
9-14) occurs, there is basket interference or goaltending (Rule 9-16) or
there is a free-throw violation by the free-thrower’s team (Rule 9-1).