OOB play

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

bbman, that is the rule for NCAA Men's play, because at that level the violation is defined as being first to touch the ball after having gone out of bounds. In NFHS rules, one can return from out of bounds legally and touch the ball, because the violation is going out of bounds for an unauthorized reason.

That is not exactly the NCAA Rule. The NCAA Rule puts a restriction of a player going out of bounds on their own volition touching the ball first. But simply going out of bounds and coming back is not a violation. So if a player saves the ball and then comes back to recover the ball, that is totally legal. Usually, this is about purposely going out of bounds to then make a play on the ball, that could be a violation. That is not what was asked in this situation BTW.

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