Backcourt or not

[Adam]

Originally Posted by just another ref

This requires only slight editing to cover the last situation:

3. The team in team control must have been the last to touch the ball while it had frontcourt status. before it went to the backcourt.

Not that yours is wrong, but that's how I'd word it.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Not that yours is wrong, but that's how I'd word it.

That's right.

There's a case play where A1 in teh BC passes th ball to the FC. The ball hits an offical and bounces back to the BC, where A1 is the first to touch.

The ball was never touched (by a player) in the FC, yet it's a BC violation.