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Originally Posted by 3SPORT

WTF - How could Team A have caused the ball to have backcourt status. They never touched it. Hard sell to the coach.

The ball isn't in the backcourt until it touches something. It had frontcourt status when it was in the air over the backcourt.

On a related question, A is passing in the frontcourt and B deflects the ball into the backcourt. When do you start the 10 second count for A to get the ball to the frontcourt?