back court question from MU v Tex game

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ballgame99

yes, because the defensive player caused a loss of control and the offensive player did not regain control prior to it going into the BC. We've had a couple posts on here where on an inbounds play A1 touches the ball in FC but doesn't gain control until in the BC and that is clean, so I was assuming the same logic applied.

So if a D1 tips a pass and it then clips A1's hand on the way to the BC and then A1 recovers, that is BC?

Team control may continue to exist even when player control is lost: the rule is written this way to cover the situation where a foul occurs during a pass between players on the offense. So loss of player control doesn't affect the backcourt rule.

That rule, as others have mentioned, has an exception that applies to throw-ins. The same logic thus does not apply.