Had a game yesterday where A1 shoots, airballs and catches own rebound. I call for a travel and partner (and the gym: teams, fans, etc) went along with it. At half time, partner came over to me and clarified to me that it was NOT a travel violation since it was a shot attempt, which would then put the ball up for grabs for anyone.

Even though many of us grew up with the airball rebound as a travel violation in streetball, I agreed with my partner's clarification, not that I could do anything about that play now.

But I was just wanting some 'legal' backing on the clarification...citation/situations? Thanks :)

You get more heat from getting this call right than from getting it wrong. It's perfectly legal if we think it was a shot. Except in the NBA.

Not a travel. Case book play 4.43SitB.

Being just a young gun here, I'll ask this question out of youthful innocence. Has this always been the case in Fed/NCAA?

If not when did it change? Without doing the research my guess is that as long as the definition of team control included losing team control upon a try or tap it has been no travel on an airball rebound by the shooter.

Always been the case as far as I know.