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I have to disagree, Nevada.
5.2.1 C specifically covers legal touching by an opponent. BI is illegal touching.
Also, 5-2-1 states "a successful try, tap, or thrown ball that does not touch the floor, a teammate, or official, from the field by a player who is located behind the team's own 19-foot 9-inch line counts three points." This cannot, by rule, be a successful basket - 5-1 requires the ball to actually pass through the hoop and net for this to happen. BI is, rather, an awarded basket and does not fall under the definition above (the alley-oops).
In addition, the BI/goaltending penalty section clearly states that the opponents are awarded "one point if during a free throw, three points if during a three-point try and two points in any other case." 4-40 makes a tap the same as a try, but doesn't make this case the same as a try. If it was the intent of the committee to change the BI penalty when they changed this ruling, they need to go back and corrrect the book.
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