Be the Referee: Backcourt Violation?
January 31, 2019
This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis explains an often misunderstood backcourt/frontcourt basketball scenario.
Be The Referee is a series of short messages designed to help educate people on the rules of different sports, to help them better understand the art of officiating, and to recruit officials.
Below is this week's segment – Backcourt Violation? - Listen
Let’s test your knowledge of high school basketball rules with this you make the call:
During a jump ball, a throw-in or while on defense, a player jumps from the forecourt, secures control of the ball with both feet in the air, and returns to the floor with one or both feet in the backcourt. You make the call.
Is this a backcourt violation or does play continue? In this situation, a player may make a normal landing on the floor without regard to where his or her feet come down. It makes no difference whether the first foot down is in the frontcourt or the backcourt. There is no backcourt – or what some would call an over-and-back – violation, and play continues with a fresh 10-second count applied if necessary to advance the ball into the frontcourt.
Past editions
January 24: Required Hockey Equipment - Listen
January 17: You Make the Call: 10-Second Clock - Listen
January 10: Tripping in Hockey - Listen
January 3: Sliding in Basketball - Listen
December 27: Stalling in Wrestling - Listen
December 20: Basketball: You Make the Call - Listen
December 13: Basketball Uniform Safety - Listen
December 6: Coaching Box Expansion - Listen
November 29: Video Review, Part 2 - Listen
November 22: Video Review, Part 1 - Listen
November 15: You Make the Call - Sleeper Play - Listen
November 8: 7-Person Football Crews - Listen
November 1: Overtime Differences - Listen
October 25: Trickery & Communication - Listen
October 18: Punts & Missed Field Goals - Listen
October 11: What Officials Don't Do - Listen
October 4: Always 1st-and-Goal - Listen
September 27: Unique Kickoff Option - Listen
September 20: Uncatchable Pass - Listen
September 13: Soccer Rules Change - Listen
September 6: You Make the Call: Face Guarding - Listen
August 30: 40-Second Play Clock - Listen
August 23: Football Rules Changes - Listen
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Join Lorne Plant, TJ Kelley and Scott Burnstein for the seventh episode this season of STATE CHAMPS! Hangtime.
0:00 – Open
1:10 – Undefeated teams across the state
1:35 – Birmingham Groves, Return of Marc West
3:55 – OAA White
4:55 – Game Recaps
5:12 – Brother Rice vs UofD Jesuit
6:27 – Detroit PSL/CHSL Operation Friendship
6:59 – Rice’s big 3
7:57 – Saginaw vs Arthur Hill, last game ever between the two programs before merger
11:21 – MAC Red
15:03 – Warren Lincoln vs Orchard Lake St. Mary’s
16:34 – Hudsonville vs Grandville
17:11 – BCAM Chalk Talks with North Farmington Head Coach Todd Negoshian
19:00 – The guys talk about North Farmington
22:06 – TJ’s Top 20 Rankings
25:01 – Weekend outlook and conference playoffs
29:44 - Close