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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
This is correct for NFHS rules. Anyone who would charge a delay of game warning or a technical foul for this action is wrong. Once the throw-in pass is released the defender may break the boundary plane.
The NCAA rule is different. That may be the source of the confusion of some of these other officials. Under NCAA rules the defender may not break the boundary plane until the ball does!
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And, for the NFHS, this didn't used to be the case.
The former version of the rule specified a T for a defender touching the ball on the OOB side of the throwin plane. It was not poorly worded or unclear. However, a few years ago, they "clarified" the rule and added something like "while in the hands of the thrower". Not exacly a clarification but a fundamental difference from what was previously printed. Pherhaps it was what had been desired all along, but it was certainly not a clarification of what had been written.