Officials who want to be considered for tournament assignments must have attended one of these meetings as well. We do not have a lot of changes this year, but I would like to review with you the changes and points of emphasis.
Lets start with the pregame.
Meet with the timer and scorer and discuss critical timing situations and substitution procedures. This year, the procedure we want used in boys basketball games is that the timer does not sound the horn until the official scorer has a substitute properly report it. The substitute will give number for number, at which time the scorer will ask the timer to sound the horn indicating the substitute is ready to enter the game. We do not want timers sounding the horn as a substitute is running to the table. Officials, observe the table area at each dead ball situation and see if there are substitutes awaiting to enter the game.