UNC/Boston College backcourt violation (Video)

[HokiePaul]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I had a play earlier in the year where on a rebound a offensive player saved a ball and threw it near the BC. I was the lead and nothing was called. I had no idea if it was touched or controlled, but I could tell by the reaction that something had happened. I left it alone because I had nothing to give but that a player threw the ball near the BC. It probably was a BC violation, but I was watching rebounding and making sure the player saving the ball was not fouled or continuous contact after save.

Peace

I had the reverse of this (2 man). I was trail, ball was in opposite corner so I'm looking at off ball post play. Ball goes flying into back court and I have no idea if the offense was last to touch. The offensive player hesitated and then grabbed it. I hit my whistle for a backcourt violation, thinking that a whistle could be corrected, but no whistle couldn't. Based on the coach's reaction to the call, I went to my partner and asked if the ball was last touched in the FC by the defense. He said it was, so I changed to an inadvertant whistle. Wish my partner had come to me right away, but I guess he assumed I had seen something else.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by HokiePaul

I had the reverse of this (2 man). I was trail, ball was in opposite corner so I'm looking at off ball post play. Ball goes flying into back court and I have no idea if the offense was last to touch. The offensive player hesitated and then grabbed it. I hit my whistle for a backcourt violation, thinking that a whistle could be corrected, but no whistle couldn't. Based on the coach's reaction to the call, I went to my partner and asked if the ball was last touched in the FC by the defense. He said it was, so I changed to an inadvertent whistle. Wish my partner had come to me right away, but I guess he assumed I had seen something else.

This is one where the L should be making the backcourt call (or not)...assuming there is no close play at the division line that would need the T's position to see. Short of that, the L could indicate to the trail, with a tip signal, that the ball was indeed tipped coming out of the L's primary.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

This is one where the L should be making the backcourt call (or not)...assuming there is no close play at the division line that would need the T's position to see. Short of that, the L could indicate to the trail, with a tip signal, that the ball was indeed tipped coming out of the L's primary.

Correct. In that two-person game, the Trail should not have blown his whistle and instead looked to his partner for the new tip signal.