Chuck,
I agree with your situation,my situation which was the one above assumed the player had the ball in their possesion. You know the people in the stands who think that we as officials don't care or don't "know" the rules, really should take a look at this forum and see how much we disect such a simple situation as over and back. It all helps on the floor because we have "seen" it in the forum :)

Pls tell me if I ref correctly by seeing any one pt, ie either foot or the ball from the dribbler touching the FC, then he's in FC status

No, that's incorrect. A player dribbling the ball is not in the FC until both feet and the ball are in the FC.

One thing that would make this who issue easier would be to completely rewrite this rule.

My <b>suggestion</b>:

Make a neutral zone about 6' wide at midcourt. A player would not be in the FC until they touched anything in front of the neutral zone. At that time, they could no longer touch the area behind the neutral zone. With enough distance, there would be no need for a 3-points for a dribbler rule, throw-in exception, steal exception, case book plays about straddling the line, etc. If you touch in the FC, you are in the FC. If you touch in the BC, you are in the BC. If you are in the NZ, you are where you last touched (FC/BC).

We could call it the DMZ.

Also - you could paint the new lines blue, put in a violation for a two-line pass and, wait, we already have that. It's called hockey.

I thought those blue lines on the basketball court were for volleyball. :confused:

In my gym they are yellow lines!