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Rod Griffin
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Many more fouls will be called this season. After the debacle known as the NCAA tournament last year, both men's & women's, where players got beat to death & pushed all over the court, let's just say much more contact will be called. A lot of the physicality that has been the rule, that has even been taken out of the NBA, is now being taken out of college basketball. The buzzword in the points of emphasis is "Freedom of Movement."
The chucking of cutters is supposed to be called if a defender knocks them off their path along with the offense knocking the defender off his legal guarding path by sticking out the knees & elbows as is common. They are calling it the "hot stove" rule for how defensive players can guard players with the ball. They can reach out and touch the ball handler once to size him up, but that is it. The continuous touch is supposed to be called as is the riding and guiding that strong guards get away with.
There is also a new rule & interpretation [call it the Duke flop rule but everybody does it] on where a defender has to be and set up to be able to take a charge. This will be interesting as in the past I believe they had to be set before the player was in the act of shooting. Now they are going back about half to a full step for the offensive player and saying the defender has to be set up and in legal guarding position before the offense has started to "gather" the ball for his shot. MY guess is they are trying to bring more offense back into these low scoring games.
I would expect to see much longer games early until the teams get the hang of all this and quit fouling so much, or TV calls a halt to all this and says the games are running too long and makes the NCAA change the rules back. Guys are saying their early scrimmages are taking 2:15 to play in some cases.
There has also been an official Rule 11 added to the rule book. It deals with TV & all the replay stuff.
The chucking of cutters is supposed to be called if a defender knocks them off their path along with the offense knocking the defender off his legal guarding path by sticking out the knees & elbows as is common. They are calling it the "hot stove" rule for how defensive players can guard players with the ball. They can reach out and touch the ball handler once to size him up, but that is it. The continuous touch is supposed to be called as is the riding and guiding that strong guards get away with.
There is also a new rule & interpretation [call it the Duke flop rule but everybody does it] on where a defender has to be and set up to be able to take a charge. This will be interesting as in the past I believe they had to be set before the player was in the act of shooting. Now they are going back about half to a full step for the offensive player and saying the defender has to be set up and in legal guarding position before the offense has started to "gather" the ball for his shot. MY guess is they are trying to bring more offense back into these low scoring games.
I would expect to see much longer games early until the teams get the hang of all this and quit fouling so much, or TV calls a halt to all this and says the games are running too long and makes the NCAA change the rules back. Guys are saying their early scrimmages are taking 2:15 to play in some cases.
There has also been an official Rule 11 added to the rule book. It deals with TV & all the replay stuff.