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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
The fouls would stop if the NBA and NCAA assigners would put JV officials as a fourth official on the game to get them experience.
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Sarcasm aside. Seriously, do colleges have junior varsity teams? Every once in a while I hear something about such teams.
I know that many years ago freshman were not eligible to play "varsity" college basketball, so colleges had freshman teams (1968 NCAA changes to freshman eligibility sports except football and basketball. 1972, football and basketball followed suit).
I believe that the Ivy League was the last to make the change to allow freshman to play "varsity" (1971 for some sports, 1991 for football).
Note: That's why Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) only played three years (66-67, 67-68, 68-69) of "varsity" basketball at UCLA. He didn't leave early to join the NBA, he was forced to play a year of freshman basketball at UCLA.