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Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB
By rule it is a violation:
ART. 1
A player shall not be the first to touch the ball after it has been in team control in the frontcourt, or if he/she or a teammate last touched or was touched by the ball in the frontcourt before it went to the backcourt.
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Ball, however, did not "go into the backcourt". It still had frontcourt status. Had the violator allowed the ball to touch in the backcourt it would have been no violation.
This precise question was on our state rules test this fall. Others prevailed upon me to arrive at this understanding.
Rule 9-9 needs to be torn down and totally rewritten from scratch. Though understood by most seasoned officials, the verbiage is far more convoluted than it needs to be. The "team control during throw-in" curve ball followed the law of unintended consequences to give us what it is. Yuk.