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Just to be clear, the NCAA rule change was only the penalty for being the first to touch after voluntarily leaving the court. Up until this year, it was a technical foul.
Although Nevadaref says that this action is legal under NFHS rules, I had thought that it was a T there as well for leaving the court for an unauthorized reason. But I don't officiate under NFHS rules nor do I have a rulebook to check out the references he provides, so now I just don't know.
Note that if someone leaves the court unvoluntarily (momentum takes you out of bounds after a basketball play, contact causes you to step out of bounds, etc), there is no penalty.
I've always thought that the use of the term "establish" or "reestablish" leads to confusion. At any moment, a player is either inbounds or out of bounds. If the player is out of bounds, it is a violation to touch the ball. If inbounds, then play on.
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