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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Unitl a few years ago FIBA did not have a backcourt time limit; it now has an eight (8) second time limit. NAGWS did not have a backcourt time limit because it also used the FIBA thirty (30) second shot clock rule (it now uses the NBA/WNBA 24 second shot clock). FIBA's rational at the time for not having a backcourt time limit was the shot clock rule.
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FIBA extended the backcourt time limit to the whole game (10 seconds) in 1976. Prior to 1976, the time limit was in force only during the last three minutes of the game. That's not "a few years ago", is it?
At the same time, the "return in the backcourt" rule was extended to the whole game (it was only in the last 3 minutes).
It was a major rule reform: it introduced the bonus free throws (after the 10th foul in a half), instead of shooting for every foul in the last 3 minutes. It introduced also the "3 for 2" free throws for a shooting foul and the additional free throw for a shooting foul with scored basket. Some source contends that some of these rules changed in 1974, but at that time the rule changes were valid for an Olympic cycle (and 1976 was an Olympic year).
The shot clock rule was already in force during the whole game (30 seconds) since 1956.
A few years ago the backcourt time limit was reduced to 8 seconds, at the same time the shot clock was reduced to 24 seconds.