NCAA 10-sec backcourt count - should it be reset?

[so cal lurker]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I'm still trying figure out how the new 10-second BC rule and its exceptions is related to a 5 second closely guarded count.

A closely guarded count doesn't get interrupted then resumed from the same point.
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Precisely. Neither does a back court count if a time out is called. In each case, the team with ball gets exactly the same benefit from calling TO: a new count. I can be dribbling in the front court closely guarded and get relief from the 5 second count exactly the same as I can be dribbling in the back court and call time out to get relief from the 10 second count. (You added the ball going out of play to the scenario -- that is not a necessary component of the potential advantage of calling an excessive TO.)