Sideline: Forced OOB

[MN 3 Sport Ref]

Originally posted by BayStateRef
Check out the Note under Rule 9-3.
"The dribbler has committed a violation if he/she steps on or outside a boundary even though he/she is not touching the ball while he/she is out of bounds."

This is not a close call. The girl, while dribbling, stepped out of bounds. That is an OOB violation. It does not matter if she was touching the ball at the time.

It is amazing what one can acomplish when you quit being lazy and walk 5 minutes to your car and retrieve your rule book.

Like stated above 9-3 states the dribbler is OOB even though she was not touching the ball when she went OOB. This would become obvious when he/she continues the dribble on the other side of the defender. For those not satisfied, one could also call a double dribble via 9-5 as the player dribbled , passed/fumbled the ball by the defender and then started a new dribble.

This really wasn't that tough of a sitch. Work must be frying my brain today....