Just so everybody is clear White #2 is the wing that is opposite the table. I can't see the numbers of the player who made the errant pass or the one who tried to "save" that pass (the wing on the table side).

The whistle is blown shortly after the table side player touches the ball. It should not have been. #2 eventually picks up the ball in the back court in the center circle.

Sorry. Thought bucky was referring to the player that touched it while both had frontcourt status.

Sorry, I mean it is rolling in the backcourt. No player in team A touches the ball while that player has BC status in my scenario.

Right, so No. 2 is just picking up a dead ball. That doesn't suddenly make an incorrect backcourt call correct.

I don't disagree. Just trying to clarify Bucky's comments.

Technically, it should have been an IW, with ball back to white. That's picking nits on what was going to be an obvious violation.

1. I will assume a Big Ten ref knows the rule, but just missed the call.
2 and 3, agreed.

On 1....I'm not so sure. He probably knows the basics of the travel rule, but it's hard to say he just "missed" this one. It's not really possible to do that move and not travel lol.

If he took his eyes off the shooter at just the wrong moment to see the defender, he may not have seen it well enough to make a call. This is the most basic of travel rules, so the idea that he doesn't know the rule is more difficult for me to believe than the idea that he just looked away at the wrong moment.