Whose Ball?

[Mark Padgett]

When I saw the title of this post, I thought it would be a discussion of what to say when players came out to start a quarter and ask "whose ball?"

When that happens (and it happens all the time, as you know), I usually look down at the ball then say, "some kid named Wilson (or Baden, etc.)".

Sometimes they get it.

[Camron Rust]

While the ball does becomes dead at the point of an infraction, I'd say in this case, it doesn't become dead until the whistle since there was no infraction. If the ball was in B1's hands at the time of the whistle, B gets the ball.