Team 1 has possession on their end of court, player 1 releases ball to pass to player 2. While the ball is in the air after 1 releases ball and prior to 2 receiving ball the buzzer accidentally goes of with time remaining on the clock. Play stops due to the buzzer.
Ref makes the call that the other team gets the ball on the inbounds at the start of play.
I said to the Ref, the team that possessed the the ball at the time of the buzzer sounding has the ball.
Ref makes the call, seeing there was no player in possession of the ball when horn sounded it's a change of possession.
I lost the discussion ( after a 5 minutes) to the Ref but I'm 99.9 percent I correct. I'll eat crow if need be but don't think I'll have to.
Who's ball is it when play resumes?