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Originally posted by moref
I had a situation the other night in a varsity contest where team A shoots the ball and misses . The ball is headed out of bounds under the basket when a player from team A saves the ball all the way back across halfcourt and I am like this isn't backcourt , but I know the team B coach is gonna question this one and he did. My partner and I talked about it and we think we got it right. Did we?
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I have yet to see a player save the ball along the end line by batting it and have that ball go all the way into the backcourt untouched. Causing the ball to go this far is usually a dead give away that the player making the save caught the ball with one hand and threw it, thus he had control.
I would have ruled your play a backcourt violation if a member of Team A was the first to touch the ball after it entered the backcourt.
I have seen players bat rebounds back into the backcourt without establishing control from the middle of the lane though.