Over & Back on Throw In

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

It is a perfectly accurate description of the play in all cases I can think of...you have to get the ball over the division line and then go back to have the violation. It isn't necessarily verbose enough to tell the full story but neither is "backcourt".

As for what is listed in the books, that doesn't stop people from reporting illegal use of hands as "hits", at least around here. I don't and think it sounds silly, but it is common, particularly in the college crowd. And in a lot if cases, "hits" is not actually correct.

"Hit" is in the NCAA-W manual, fwiw. "HitS" sounds plain stupid to me, personally.

Examples of backcourt violations that don't fit "over and back":

1) A thrown-in ball that is player-controlled in the frontcourt that then obtains backcourt status (last touched by A, first touched by A) never necessarily went "over the division line" before going "back."

2) A jump ball that ends which then immediately results in a backcourt violation hasn't necessarily crossed the division line at all.