Thread: Backcourt redux
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Old Tue Jan 25, 2005, 11:03am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally posted by BktBallRef


The ball is in the FC. When A2 touches the ball, he is in the BC. A2 causes the ball to go from FC to BC. It
s no different than a player who is OOB, reaching in an touching a ball that is inbounds.
I see the analogy to the OOB, but that only means that the ball is in the backcourt. In NFHS rules, causation (or would it be causality? Help me out here, rainmaker. ) does not apply to the backcourt rule. An A player was NOT the last to touch the ball before it went backcourt, so no BC violation.

When (if) I (ever) start calling NCAA games - then it's a violation because the player caused the ball to go into the back court.
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