My rule book is at home (I forgot to put it in my gamebag this morning), but let me ask this:
1. What does the rule actually say with regard to the hand on the ball? I don't believe it says the hand is considered "part of the ball." My memory tells me that such contact is to be considered "incidental."
2. If #1 is correct, then the player who "caused" the ball to go out of bounds is, by definition, the last person to touch the ball before it went there. By rule, the OP should be B's ball.
Again, though, even with my contact lenses in, I don't see well enough to make that call.
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