Ahhhh, I thought I had the details covered....it did bounce in B's frontcourt...as most of you have assumed.
And, yes, I did call it. And I caught an earfull from the coach over it. No amount of presence would get me out of this one. The coach was bound to complain even if I were
JRutledge Hank Nichols.
This case covered two
odd elements of the backcourt rule all at once.
- It touched, as MN 3 Sport Ref stated, on the exception for the defense catching the ball mid air applying only to the initial steal.
- It hit the point of being able to have a backcourt violation with no player having control of the ball in the front court....the ball went from backcourt, to frontcourt, and again to backcourt with no player ever being in the frontocurt.