Section 7. Suspensions for Fighting

Art. 1. Any member or team personnel who participates in a fight 

(regardless of whether he or she is a player at the time) shall be assessed 

a flagrant technical foul. No free throws shall be attempted by either 

team when there are double flagrant fouls that are offsetting

Art. 2. The first time an individual participates in a fight during the 

season (including exhibition games), the individual shall be suspended 

from participating in the team’s next regular-season game (not an 

exhibition contest), including tournament competition.

Art. 3. When an individual participates in a second fight, that 

individual shall be suspended for the remainder of the season, including 

tournament competition.

Art. 4. When an individual participates in a fight during his or her 

team’s final game of the season, that individual shall be suspended from 

participating in the team’s next regular-season game (not an exhibition 

contest) for which that member or team personnel would be eligible.

Art. 5. When an individual with eligibility for the next season 

participates in a fight during his or her final game of the season and that 

fight is the individual’s second fight of the season, that individual shall 

be suspended for the first three regular-season games (not exhibitions) 

of the next season.

Art. 6. Any team member or other bench personnel under suspension 

for fighting shall not be in the team’s bench area.

Art. 7. The referee may declare a forfeit when any individual fails to 

comply with any part of the penalties of this rule.

Art. 8. After a game, conference offices or the assigning authority may 

correct an error about who was involved in a fight but cannot change 

an official’s ruling that a fight took place or lessen the severity of the 

penalty. The conference office or assigning authority may make those 

penalties more severe

The following apply to situations in which a fight has been reported by 

an official during his/her jurisdiction. When a fight  is not reported by an 

official, the conference or assigning authority may invoke its own penalty.  

For the rules on suspensions for fighting see Rule 10-7.

1. The official shall inform the offender(s), the head coach and the official 

scorer that an ejection for fighting was issued (the official scorer shall 

note this in the scorebook).

2. After the game, the referee shall contact the coordinator of officials/ 

assignor for the game and report all ejection(s) for fighting.

3. The coordinator of officials/assignor shall report the ejection(s) for 

fighting to the conference commissioner or, if the offender is from an 

independent institution, to that team’s athletics director.

4. The conference commissioner shall call and follow up in writing to the 

following people:

a. The athletics director of the team whose individual(s) was involved; 

and

b. When the opponent’s individual(s) was ejected for fighting, that team’s 

conference commissioner or, when that school is an independent 

institution, to that team’s athletics director.

5. Fight-reporting procedures should be handled quickly since the longterm participation of the offender(s) shall be affected by a second fight.

6. Related considerations:

b. Institutional and conference policy dictates whether a suspended 

individual shall be permitted to attend a game from which he or she 

is suspended. If the individual(s) attends the game, he or she shall not 

be in the team’s bench area.

severity of the penalty but may make the penalty more severe.

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