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Originally Posted by Jay R
Do you call a 3 second violation every time it occurs? It's been my experience that some calls while they may be technically correct are better left alone. I believe this to be the case. In the thousands of college basketball games that I have seen in person or on TV, I can not recall seeing an official make this call. I believe it is better to take the path of least resistance here.
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As JRut mentioned, 3 seconds is a bit different in that it's universally (at higher levels, anyway) considered an advantage/disadvantage violation. 10 second violations are upheld more closely to OOB and backcourt violations. More accurately, they're called like 5 second violations.
I have seen it called. It's not called often at the college level because the players know better. When they're getting close to 10 (and they know when they're close), they don't throw long distance passes to the basket from the BC. They know the ball needs to get FC status, so they do what they can to make it happen.