Girls Basketball Scores
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(Google Doc Version 24-25)
2024-2025 BASKETBALL GUIDE 1
Rule Changes and Points of Emphasis for 2024-25 1
Warning For Delay 1
Faking Being Fouled 2
Regular Season: 2
2. Winter Season – The winter season for girls’ & boys’ basketball shall open on December 2, 2024. Games may begin on December 13, 2024 2
Tournament Information 2
The VPA Basketball Committee will develop and edit guidelines and establish practices to promote the best interest of member schools and students in the sport of basketball. The Committee will recommend policies for season and tournament participation, establish tournament dates and sites, and govern the events.
Volunteer V.P.A. member principals and athletic directors will be selected to represent various division-size schools and regional districts of the state.
As of 2012, all paid and volunteer coaches must complete the NFHS Concussion Education course before the first day of practice.
Delaying a game and allowing it to develop into an actionless contest is not beneficial to anyone involved in interscholastic competition. One of the officials’ roles is to ensure the game maintains an appropriate pace of play, including throughout the administration of penalties, throw-ins, free throws, etc. The NFHS rules allow for officials to give an initial warning to teams that violate Rule 4-47, which defines a warning for delay as an administrative procedure by an official that is recorded in the scorebook by the scorer and reported to the head coach. Warnings may be issued for the following: • Throw-in plane violations; • Huddle by either team or contact with the free thrower that delays the administration of the free throw; • Interfering with the ball following a goal; • Failure to have the court ready, following a time-out; or • New in 2024-25, failure to immediately pass the ball to the nearer official. Any two delay warnings will result in a team technical foul. The warnings do not have to be issued for the same reason or to the same player or team member to escalate to a team technical foul. Officials must utilize the Warning for Delay as soon as the behavior occurs. Initiating the warning allows the behavior to be addressed early. Failing to address behavior that violates this rule before initiating a warning may create confusion among coaches and players, creating an environment that becomes more difficult to manage.
“Faking Being Fouled” was added to the NFHS Basketball Rules Book twenty years ago as an unsporting foul committed by a player, resulting in a player technical. In 2004-2005, the Rules Committee addressed “Specific Unsporting Acts” as a Point of Emphasis, and “Flopping” was one of the points. Twenty years later, faking being fouled continues to be a point of concern for the rules committee. This year, the rules committee added a warning (4-49) and defined faking being fouled as: • Overtly embellishing the impact of incidental contact on block/charge plays or attempted tries for goal; • Using a “head bob” to simulate illegal contact; or • Using any other tactics to create an opinion of being fouled and therefore gaining an advantage. A warning will now be issued for the first instance, lessening the severity of the penalty while continuing to address the behavior. A technical foul will be assessed to the team for each subsequent occurrence. Officials will utilize the new signal No. 15 at the time the flop occurs. Providing officials with an opportunity to warn a player before issuing a technical foul will allow players to adjust their behaviors before receiving a harsher penalty
Evening, single game: Start at 7:00 P.M.
*Afternoon, single game: Start at 2:00 P.M.
*Afternoon, double-header: Start at 1:00 P.M., 2nd game approximately 3:00 P.M.
*Evening, double-header: Start at (6:00) P.M., 2nd game approximately (8:00) P.M. *Subject to change by agreement with tournament hosts.
If for any reason a starting time is changed, approval must be granted by the Executive Director in advance of any public announcement. If local conditions demand a change in starting time, approval must be granted by the observers on the spot. Care and caution must be taken in changing at any time, especially when teams have to travel. Starting times should never be made earlier unless an adequate announcement has been given. In general, the higher-paired team will play the second game during all two-game events. This practice may be varied upon special request from far distant schools competing on school nights.
(Tournament sites refer to Barre Auditorium and UVM).
Boys: February 25/26, 2025
Girls: March 4/5, 2025
Quarter Finals:
Boys: February 28, March 1, 2025
Girls: March 7/8, 2025
Semi-Finals:
Boys: Monday, March 3-6 (D1@TBD)
(D2/3/4 @ Barre Auditorium)
Girls: Sunday, March 10-13, 2025 (D1 @TBD) (D2/3/4 @ Barre Auditorium)
Championships:
Boys:(D1 @ TBD) (D2/3/4 @ Barre Auditorium) March 7-8
Girls: Thursday, March 7, 2025 (D1 @ UVM)
Saturday, March 14-15 2025 (D2/3/4 @ Barre Auditorium)
Playdown and quarter-final dates are subject to change by the VPA.
Every attempt will be made to develop tournament dates and sites well in advance, but with the understanding due to circumstances beyond the control of the Vermont Principals’ Association, such tournament dates and sites may be subject to change and/or tournament games may be in conflict if a school has more than one team participating in post-season play.
Application for admission to a tournament is made with the understanding that if selected for a tournament, the team will participate in said tournament under the conditions as stated above.
If a team has utilized 8th-grade athletes on their sub-varsity roster during the regular season, those 8th-grade players are ineligible for promotion to the varsity squad for the duration of the tournament season.