How do you know when it's a backcourt violation or not? Let's talk it through on, Rule Review.

This is another Rule Review segment covering plays involving possible backcourt violation situations. This video is dedicated to educating basketball officials on the proper way to look at backcourt plays, including determining the location of the ball, in relation to front court, backcourt and player location status. Watching actual videos of backcourt plays helps officials learn faster and retain rule information better. We can all learn together by continually discussing the rules and definitions as they are written pertaining to ball and player location reinforce those rules by applying them to actual high school basketball videos.
In this segment of Rule Review, the four backcourt video clips we reference are all high school games and involve different aspects to improving your ability to successfully recognize and whistle backcourt situations.
Video #1
- The home team has control of the ball in their front court, passing the ball around, when the ball gets deflected, hits off a home team player and goes into the backcourt. When the home team regains control, the official correctly calls a backcourt violation because when a team is in control and is the last to touch the ball in the front court and the first to touch the ball in the backcourt it becomes a backcourt violation. It is noted that the ball should be placed at the spot nearest the violation and not simply at the division line.
Video #2
- As the visiting team brings the ball up after a made basket, the ball gets passed from the backcourt to a teammate who catches the ball in the air and then lands in the backcourt, only to have the officials blow the ball dead because of a backcourt violation. When examined closer it is pointed out that the teammate had jumped from the front court and when the ball, which had backcourt status, was caught by a player who had front court status, the visiting team gained control in the front court. When the player lands in the backcourt the ball was now touched last in the front court and first in the backcourt by the same team and thus causing a backcourt violation.
Video #3
- A throw-in pass is caught by an airborne teammate who jumped from the front court and lands in the backcourt, but no whistle from the officials. This is because, during a throw-in the ball retains no location status so an airborne player can catch the ball and make a normal landing anywhere on the court. The order in which the feet come to the floor, in relation to front court and backcourt status also has no bearing.
Video #4
- A dribbler advances the ball up the backcourt and steps one foot into the front court, only to pull back and retreat into the backcourt. Rule 4 tells us that when a player is dribbling the ball, the ball is not considered to be in the front court until the ball and both feet are entirely in the front court. So this was correctly ruled as a legal play by the officials.
Watching video clips is a good way to stay connected to the skill of officiating basketball but true education and learning can more effectively be attained when each video is annotated with diagrams and shading to point out key teaching points. Taking away and remembering specifics on a rule such as ball location in relation to backcourt violations is easier when visual aids are used to present in a way that is easy to listen to and understand.
The Officials Institute, and the Rule Review segment, creates videos that don't leave you guessing about whether there was a foul, violation or not. Even though we cannot officiate in slow motion or freeze frames, by watching and reviewing video video in this fashion, we are able to "retrain our brain" so we can start seeing plays more accurately when we do see them in real time and increase our ability to get the call right.
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[@orioguy9]

I love these videos. The first example was great. I needed a refresher on spoting the ball following that deep of a backcourt violation.

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Glad they are helpful

[@danwatanabe8646]

Really nicely explained! Thank you!!

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Glad it was helpful!

[@johnharrison5861]

I really like the examples that were shown in this video ..

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Excellent. I'm happy they were useful.

[@TheOfficialPHC]

Very helpful

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Glad to hear it.

[@johndavis-rd9ld]

?Well done--I see more violations where they pass the ball from the front court to the back court and the player in the back court jumps in the air as he catches the ball and lands in the front court

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Thanks for joining us.

[@budsodalsky]

helpful!

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Glad it was beneficial to you.

[@NgekNgoksMOTOGP]

Tnx sir

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Your welcome

[@NgekNgoksMOTOGP]

Im also starting officiating basketball thats why im so thankful to your channel to enhance more my knowlege

[@pressboxz]

What if a player jump stops just after passing the mid court line to the front court then proceeds to pivot the ball (not their feet)from the front court to the back court?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Not sure what you mean by pivoting the ball, but a players location is based on where the feet are. The ball is not a factor.

[@SimmonsFam-OR]

In the scenario where player is dribbling up court, straddles half court line and passes back to teammate, if he had dribbled in the front court while straddling before passing back, would this then be a backcourt violation?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

No because a dribbling player must have both feet and the ball touch entirely in the front court to be considered in the front court.

[@arjayabarquez7180]

When you're in the front court and one of your foot step at the line of the backcourt. Is it considered a backcourt violation?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

If you're referring to a ball handler, then yes this is a backcourt violation. Since the location of a player is determined by where they are standing on the floor and since the entire division line is considered to be in the back court, when they step on it, they are also considered in the backcourt. Thanks for watching.

[@daverusch7099]

I still am confused why a division line throw in deflected by the defense and an airborne player from the front court to back court catching that deflection is a violation.

[@OfficialsInstitute]

The throw-in exception for an airborne player catching a ball and landing legally wherever he lands, ends when the throw-in is over. When the defender touches the ball after it has been thrown, the throw-in is technically over and the exception no longer applies. Therefore, the airborne player who catches the ball has front court status, having last touched in the front court, catches the ball which is now in team and player control in the front court, and then lands in the backcourt. Last to touch in the front court, first to touch in the backcourt. Backcourt violation.

[@daverusch7099]

@@OfficialsInstitute Great. That confirms my understanding. I appreciate it. One followup -- in the same scenario with the tipped throw-in, say the ball flies into backcourt and hits the ground. It's legal for throw-in team to pickup and dribble or pass right?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

@@daverusch7099 Correct.

[@jeffpoh4246]

So with the last example, in theory, you can dribble with both feet in the frontcourt but the ball in the backcourt and bring your feet back into the backcourt with no violation?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Correct

[@heatherquiroz6007]

This is great. I have a question though, please. Lets say A1 throws the ball in from out of bounds to A2. A2 catches the ball while straddling the division line. Is that considered legal or is that over and back?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

When a player is touching the backcourt, he/she is considered to be in the backcourt. However, since the ball does not have a frontcourt or backcourt location on a throw-in, where the player is standing when the ball is caught is not relevant to the backcourt violation rule. SO, this would be a legal play.

[@heatherquiroz6007]

@@OfficialsInstitute thank you!

[@andrewghafary-lq7nk]

If you stop dribbling in the backcourt take one foot to the frontcourt and back again to the backcourt. Is that a violation?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Not if the other foot is still touching the backcourt.

[@amalvarghese6537]

What about steeled ball go to backcourt

[@OfficialsInstitute]

I'm assuming you mean a ball that has been tipped by the defense. If a defender contacts the ball and is the last one to touch the ball before it goes into the backcourt, any team can recover, however, if the defender contacts the ball and knocks it away from the ball handler, BUT it last touches an offensive player before going into the backcourt, it would be a backcourt violation if an offensive player touches the ball first in the backcourt. Does that help?

[@kennethreichelt]

You're missing the tough scenarios like: A1 is dribbling in the front court. B1 pokes the ball out and it deflects off of A1s foot into the backcourt. A1 retrieves the ball in the backcourt. Ruling?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Unfortunately we cannot cover every scenario possible. Maybe we will revisit this rule at a later time and include that one. Thanks for watching.

[@davidharris8082]

Backcourt violation

[@The_Bri_Cli]

Are these NBA rules?

[@OfficialsInstitute]

NFHS

[@johnfritz2310]

What about a backtap

[@OfficialsInstitute]

All depends on who touched last and first

[@seanbruck5269]

u must be stoned lol yo eyes beat red

[@OfficialsInstitute]

Not a good studio day.