NCAA women's back court error

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

This was posted by Jon on 9/22 (although the "heading" in the Ask Jon correctly indicates a later question of 9/24):

QUESTION:

If Team A is dribbling in their backcourt with 30 seconds on the shot clock and the defense causes the ball to go out of bounds with 18 seconds on the shot clock and no one on the crew calls a backcourt violation, under last year's interpretation it is too late to call a backcourt violation and the inbounding team gets a new 10-second backcourt count if the throw-in goes into the backcourt. Assuming the same interpretation and situation this year, and the offensive team does not call a timeout to buy themselves a new 10-second backcourt count, I assume that if the offense throws the inbounds pass directly into the f/c, there is no violation, but if they throw the inbounds pass into the b/c, we would call an immediate b/c violation. Please confirm.

ANSWER:


There has been no change to the approved ruling that the unobserved violation may not be called when the ball is out of bounds and the crew recognizes that there is 18 seconds remaining on the shot clock (A.R. 223). Because it is too late to penalize the 10-second violation, if Team A’s throw-in is made into their backcourt, they will receive a new ten seconds to advance the ball into their frontcourt. Team A would not be required to call a timeout in order to receive a new ten seconds.

That's idiotic. Not only does the defensive team get screwed by the first missed violation, but the rules person is saying to award the offensive team another full ten seconds in the backcourt!

What's wrong with acknowledging the violation two seconds late?