This is what
4-68 says:
Art. 6. It is traveling when a player falls to the playing court while holding the ball without maintaining a pivot foot.
I assume the NCAA is ruling that since A1 caught the ball in the air and fell directly to the floor that there is no pivot foot to maintain therefore it is not a travel.
I see no rule or A.R. that contridicts that.
BTW, I agree completely with your interpretation of "
a".
BTW #2, why are you copying me?
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