Throw-in Spot

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

"The ball shall be passed by the thrower directly into the court from out-of-bounds so it touches or is touched by another player (inbounds or out of bounds) on the court before going out of bounds untouched." (NFHS 9-2-2) "PENALTY: (Section 2) The ball becomes dead when the violation or technical foul occurs. Following a violation, the ball is awarded to the opponents for a throw-in at the original throw-in spot."
This is a throw-in violation, not an out of bounds violation. The penalty spot for a throw-in violation is the spot of the original throw-in.

Keep in mind that if the ball goes directly from the throwin and contacts a player who is out of bounds, then that out of bounds player caused the ball to go out of bounds and the other team will inbound from the out of bounds spot.

(Unless you're as old as Mark T. DeNucci, Sr., in which case the player throwing in the ball caused it to go out of bounds, but that was a very, very, very long time ago, and Dr. Naismith has changed the rules since then.)