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Originally Posted by Clark Kent
One of the questions on the test in the "Backcourt/Frontcourt" section asks the following question......
"A ball that is in contact with two players is in the backcourt if either player is touching the backcourt."
The correct answer is true with reference cited in 4-4-1 for anyone who objects. 
1) From what I understand of this statement (and the citation in the book) is that once frontcourt status has been established no one (including the defense) can touch the backcourt and the ball without there being a violation.
2) Would it thus be a violation if after establishing frontcourt status a defensive player (perhaps in a high trap just across the halfcourt line) touches the ball while a foot is in the backcourt? |
1) That premise is wrong. There is no violation listed anywhere in the rules for a defender merely touching a ball held by an opponent unless that defender is out of bounds when he touches it.
2) To have a violation, the defensive player has to turn into an offensive player who has established team control in their frontcourt. And to do that, the defender would have had to establish player control, which is holding or dribbling the ball. That didn't happen, did it?
Read NFHS 9-9-1. The defensive player never established team control in their frontcourt so there's no way they can ever commit a backcourt violation. And ask yourself who was the first player with backcourt status to touch the ball after it had been in team control in the frontcourt. Hint...it wasn't the offensive player holding onto the ball.