Thanks, good thoughts.
Interesting question. Many people (based on what I've heard announcers say, though maybe only NBA, and what I've found by googling) think that once you step out of bounds, both feet must touch inbounds before you are inbounds and allowed to touch the ball (and maybe even "or otherwise influence play"). But I couldn't find this in the NCAA WBB rule book or casebook. I also looked much more briefly in online official NBA rules. I found some discussions in an online forum for high school and college officials strongly stating it is not a rule even though some older officials think it is!
(02-12-2023, 02:41 AM)M T Wrote: Hmmm.... this brings up a question. The player has one foot inbounds and one foot out of bounds, but doesn't have the ball (if she did, she would be out of bounds). She lifts the foot that was out of bounds (but doesn't set it down inbounds). Is she now inbounds? (Yes, by 4.18.1.a)
Interesting question. Many people (based on what I've heard announcers say, though maybe only NBA, and what I've found by googling) think that once you step out of bounds, both feet must touch inbounds before you are inbounds and allowed to touch the ball (and maybe even "or otherwise influence play"). But I couldn't find this in the NCAA WBB rule book or casebook. I also looked much more briefly in online official NBA rules. I found some discussions in an online forum for high school and college officials strongly stating it is not a rule even though some older officials think it is!