The Canadian Basketball Officials Commission (CBOC) has outlined key points of emphasis for the upcoming 2024 season. These changes aim to enhance game flow, player safety, and officiating clarity.
Consult the document here.
Here's a breakdown of the points of emphasis:
1. Pregame Captain's Meeting
The purpose of the meeting was to enhance communication and to develop relationships between the crew and the competitors. The pregame meetings were found to be very successful in enhancing communication and this season CBOC would like to make this a standard protocol at all CCAA and U SPORTS games.
At the 7-minute mark, U1 and U2 will bring the captains together at the
center jump circle. The Crew Chief will go through the following points:
- Crew chief will introduce crew to captains
- Tell captains to be ready to play at the buzzer as game flow is
important.
- Jerseys to be tucked in before entering the game.
- After the time outs please return to the floor at horn ready to play.
- Respect for the game: Communicate respectfully with us if you have
any questions.
- Good luck
2. Principle of Verticality
• Each player has a right to occupy any position (cylinder) on the court not already
occupied by an opponent.
• This principle protects the space on the court and the space above when jumping
vertically.
• A player who leaves their cylinder and makes contact with an opponent who has
already established their cylinder is responsible for the contact.
• Defenders should not be penalized for leaving the court while remaining inside their cylinder.
• The offensive player, whether on the court or airborne shall not cause contact with a defensive player in a legal guarding position by:
- using arms to create more space
- spreading the arms or legs immediately after a shot for goal
• A player that has jumped in the air from a place on the court has the
right to land at the same place.
• A player that jumps has a right to land at another place on the court not
already occupied by an opponent at the time of take-off provided the
path between the take-off and landing places is not already occupied by
an opponent.
3. Rebounding
We need to be patient and in good position to make decisions regarding rebounding calls / no call decisions.
• When refereeing the play, it is important to maintain an appropriate distance from the play, without getting too close. The referee can lose perspective, as all movements appear to look faster and vision is narrowed. Imagine yourself watching the game from the upper deck of the stand and you will see that the players’ movements look slower than at the court level. They only appear to look that way, but obviously, they are not.
• The concept of refereeing the defence is one of the cornerstones for accurate
basketball refereeing. Essentially, it means that the priority of the referee in a PCA
competitive match-up is to focus the attention on the illegality of the defensive player whilst keeping the offensive rebounder in your field of vision. The referee is required to get into a position that allows them to clearly see the defensive player. Note: We are not refereeing the space between the players, we are refereeing the defence itself - but you need to have a position where you see the space between players in order to referee the defence.
• Stay with the play: start-develop-finish
4. Bench Decorum
• There must be 16 seats available in each team bench area for the head coach,
• the substitutes, the excluded players and the accompanying delegation
members including assistants coaches.
• Any other persons shall be located at least 2m behind the team bench
• Recommendation to involve conference leaders in site preparation
• Officials crew must address situations when this POE is not respected and take
the proper action
• Coach must respect bench area
• Players, team personal must remain seated
5. Legal Guarding Position
• A defensive player has established an initial legal guarding position when:
- facing his/her opponent, and
- having both feet on the court.
• The legal guarding position extends vertically above (within the cylinder) from the court to the ceiling. The defensive player may raise the arms and hands above the head or jump vertically but that player must maintain them in a vertical position inside the imaginary cylinder.
• The defensive player must establish an initial legal guarding position by facing the player with the ball having both feet on the court.
• The defensive player may remain stationary, jump vertically, move laterally or backwards in order to maintain the initial legal guarding position.
6. Protecting The Shooter
• Referee the defence
• Looking for shooting fouls: 1. Hands / 2. Body / 3. Feet
• Stay with the play until shooter has returned to the floor.
• Focus on shooting, secondary = flight of the ball.
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