- Continuity: In one of the games, Richmond's score on the scoreboard is shown at 29. Next play, the score reads 27.
- Continuity: In the huddle during the Holiday Championship Game, Kenyon's headband reads "And 1" in the back, but it switches to the front, then to the back again.
- Continuity: When coach Carter drives to school to accept the coaching job, he drives past the same auto repair shop (with the phone number 562-432-7676) twice, from opposite directions.
- Continuity: In the game against Bay Hill, the clock shows 1:20 remaining and then shows 1:22 remaining in the next scene.
- Continuity: In a scene in the Locker Room after a game, Coach Carter announces that they have qualified for a tournament. Here, we see Junior Battle take off his headband, in the next shot he has it back on, followed again with it off then on again
- Continuity: During the scene just after the first training session with Carter, the boys go to a café and Worm is talking about the '2 for 1 offer' with Kyra's friends. Kyra starts off holding a drink in her right hand, but between shots it switches to her holding a paper bag, then back to the drink, before Kyra and Kenyon walk off together.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the state game, Carter tells Cruz to go in for Kenyon. But, when the game starts, both Kenyon and Cruz are playing in the game.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Coach White is introducing Coach Carter to the team, he says Carter attended George Mason University. Carter attended George Fox University.
- Continuity: During the game against St. Francis, when Richmond is making their comeback, one play they get a steal and make a lay-up. During the play Timo Cruz is seen on the court in the game. The camera then switches to the bench and clearly shows Timo sitting down clapping.
- Factual errors: No doubt for poetic license, a physical padlock has been put on the gym door by Kenny Carter to "lock out" his players from practice. In real life, Carter, as depicted a part-time walk-on coach, would not have the power to lock out Richmond High School's girls basketball team, wrestling team, badminton team and PE classes. The "lockout" was symbolic, not physical.
- Anachronisms: The sports reporter at the game in the beginning of the movie refers to a opposing player as the "Next LeBron James." LeBron James would not have even been in high school when the movie takes place.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: When the boy's cousin (the drug dealer) is shot, the boy runs to his cousin and lays his gun down on his left side. The scene shifts and as the camera backs up from the scene, we see the gun laying on his right side.
- Continuity: SPOILER: After they win the Bayhill Tournament Championship game, player #25 shakes Coach Carter’s hand first. In the reverse angle, player #25 is back in line to shake his hand again.
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