Straddling the division line

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

No. That's PC (not TC), and only during a dribble.

If Camron's plays are not violations, it's because of the "last to touch" criterion, not because of the "TC" or the "front court" criteria.

Thank you! I got into a mini-argument with a partner during halftime of a high school varsity game (I say "mini" because I dropped it right away as it wasn't important enough to keep arguing about). She happens to work college as well, and I didn't know if the rule was different. Even though the player was not dribbling, she insisted (and my other partner in a three man crew even backed her up) that all three points need to move into the frontcourt.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

1) As the person who posted the first comment after the OP, and am only now making my second comment in the thread, I am amused that this thread is still going and nine pages long.

2) If one does an Advanced Search one will see that this thread is only the latest in a number of many long thread on this Rule.

3) One will also see that I have always been a proponent of the Interpretation that many many people here do not like. And by always, I mean since 1971, when I started officiating. I graduated from H.S. in 1969 (I started playing JrHS basketball in 1964-64.) and I know that this was the Interpretation from the National Basketball Committee of the United States and Canada (the rules maker for boys'/girls' H.S. and men's college until it split into the NFHS and NCAA Men's Rules Committees either after the 1977-78 or 1978-79 seasons, and without climbing up into the attic to check I am favoring the former rather than the latter.

4) Since I retired from officiating women's college and men's jr. college after the 2007-08 season I download the NCAA Men's and Women's Rules and Casebook Plays but I do not really read them in detail as I probably should and rely on Jeff and Bob, to keep me abreast of those Rules when they make comments in the Forum.

5) And after nine pages are we not beating a dead horse to further death. LOL!

Have a good one everyone!

MTD, Sr.