College basketball points of emphasis

[TheReff]

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.

 

[TownieDeac]

Love these threads every year

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

This has actually been a big topic of discussion with the college basketball analysts and writers on twitter. They are trying to clean up the game some and it is going to lead to a lot of whistles. I'm scared that Devin will be in foul trouble, but he actually did well staying out of it last year.

 

[TheNines]

What is the over/under on the first time Bzzz tells us he is not going to make excuses and then uses the new foul rules as an excuse?

Come to think of it, that will be a much better excuse than he usually comes up with. Can't wait!

 

[Liquid Karma]

Bill Self has to hate this.

 

[2&2 Slider To Leyritz]

What happens to the Big Televelve? Will they even bother to play any more? A Michigan State - Illinois game would likely take 5 hours to complete and still end with a 43-38 score.

 

[wsc8521s]

Some tagger is giving The Reff too much credit

 

[JamesSokolove]

so that stupid elbow rule is staying?

 

[TheReff]

Bill Self has to hate this.

Karma, most all coaches that have built their teams to be physical & rugged are going to hate this. But viewers and coaches alike hated the way the NCAA tourney went last year, and basketball in general with all the big folks getting hammered. Just like we did in 1997 when Timmy D got hammered by Stanford in the post.

They want freedom of movement and don't want either the offense or the defense to be knocked off their route. That really is pretty simple and what basketball was meant to be. But it has developed into who can move each other out of the post. Like Plumlee did last year in the final minute at The Joel. It has also developed into the Izzo model of the huge defensive blocking back guards who pummel the dribbler and anybody in their path.

They have told those guys if they want to be calling in Jan-Feb, they better be blowing their whistles in Nov-Dec. We shall see.

 

[TheReff]

so that stupid elbow rule is staying?

Looks like it is--they can just go to the monitor to check it out more. They can call no foul.

"Elbow rules

In men’s and women’s basketball, if a foul was called for elbow contact above the shoulders, the monitor may be used to determine if a flagrant foul has been committed.

In this scenario, the official may determine if the contact was a flagrant 2, flagrant 1, common foul or no call. When the officials use the monitor to review a situation that is not called on the floor, the only options are flagrant 2, flagrant 1 or no foul.

“The intent of the elbow rule has always been to protect the student-athletes and eliminate the rip move in men’s basketball,” Dunne said. “There was a strong feeling in the men’s community that some other types of elbow contact didn’t deserve a flagrant 1, so we are allowing the limited use of the monitor to appropriately manage this play.”

In a flagrant 1 situation, the player who was struck is awarded two free throws and his team gets possession of the ball.

In a flagrant 2 situation, free throws and possession are awarded and the player who threw the elbow is ejected from the game."

 

[wsc8521s]

In all seriousness, if it leads to more games like the absolutely superb Michigan-Louisville championship game, then bring it on

 

[Deacfreak07]

Games are low scoring because, on the whole, college basketball players are not very good.

 

[jaybone]

First good reff thread ever if they had this rule in play when we played st joes a decade ago we might have made a final 4

 

[Liquid Karma]

First good reff thread ever if they had this rule in play when we played st joes a decade ago we might have made a final 4

LOL. Eric Williams wouldn't have lasted a half.

 

[jaybone]

Come on now. Cp3 would have gone ape shit if jameer Nelson hadn't been shoving him all game. Big e had their big who had a minimal offensive game as I recall. He was a shot blocker.