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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All rules referenced in this video are taken from the official rules book provided by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). To find out more about the NFHS, you can visit them at https://nfhs.org/