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Old Thu Feb 02, 2006, 10:23pm
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Tuss,

As Mick mentioned, there is some confusion about whether player "B" is really A2 or B1.

Since you're curious about the backcourt violation, I'll give you a couple scenarios to think through. Hopefully thinking through this will help you own this rule. Okay, thinking and screwing it up a time or two. This assumes NFHS rules.

If you've been lurking long, you know there are 4 succinct (if not always simple) criteria you can use to help you sort out whether a backcourt violation has occurred. The list looks like this:

1) Ball must be in team control
2) Ball must have FC status
3) Team in control must be last to touch the ball before it goes to BC
4) Team in control must be first to touch the ball after it goes to BC

If you've met those four criteria, you've got a violation.

Assuming Player "B" is really a teammate to Player "A", then you've got...
1) The ball is in team control because Player "A" is holding or dribbling a live ball inbounds.
2) If Player "A" is "established" in FC, then the ball has FC status
3) Player "A" was the last to touch the ball before it went to BC
4) Player "B" was the first to touch it after it went to BC. The ball went to BC when it touched a player (Player "B") that had BC status (as Stan and robertclasalle mentioned, Player "B" is still in BC until he lands in FC).

So you've got a violation.

Assuming Player "B" is really an opponent of Player "A", then you've got a slightly more interesting situation. If you remember that A's FC is B's BC, then think through the criteria again...
1) When Player "B" catches the ball, he established team contol
2) He left the ground in his FC, thus the ball has attained FC status
3) He was the last to touch it before it went to BC
4) He's still touching when he lands in his BC

So that would normally be a violation. Except...

There's an exception for this very case: "A player from the team not in control (defensive player or during a jump ball or throw-in) may legally jump from his/her frontcourt, secure control of the ball with both feet off the floor and return to the floor with one or both feet in the backcourt. The player may make a normal landing and it makes no difference whether the first foot down is in the frontcourt or backcourt."

So if Player "B" is an opponent, then you have no violation. Got all that?
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