This year I have seen at least a dozen times in Division I games on TV the following situation: Team A has ball in frontcourt. A pass is tipped by team B which deflects the ball towards the midcourt line. Team A then is last to touch in frontcourt, then is first to touch in backcourt while recapturing the ball. No call. In NFHS rules we all know this is a backcourt violation. Is the rule different for NCAA men's?

No, it's not.

Saw this tonight in the GT-MD game.

Gt has the ball for a throw-in, under their own basket. GT1 throws the ball into the BC where GT2 retrieves it. He passes it to GT3 who leaps from the FC, catches the ball and lands in the BC. No call.

I hope the D-1 guys are going to start ignoring BC violations like they do traveling.

It also happened today in the Syracuse-UConn game, and Jim Burr was the (non) calling official on the play.

I work a JuCo Conference in which my supervisor is a D1 official.

I called a backcourt violation in a game in which A1 was in his frontcourt moving towards the division line towards the loose ball coming his way. He grabbed the ball with his left foot in his frontcourt (he at no time jumped during this sequence nor did he cross or contact the division line) and his right foot was in the air. After grabbing the ball his momentum caused him to step into the backcourt.

After the game my observer questioned me at length about the validity of my call.

So maybe there is some unwritten leniency towards b/c violations at the NCAA level.