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There is contact all the time, at all levels, oh, but we have had this conversation before. At a high level, you have two powerful quick people making very hard contact without any clear player at fault. This cannot and should not be called a foul. I am not making excuses for it, I am explaining a feature of high level play that you see watching any college game. As for the touch contact that is clearly one player's fault, officials are less likely to punish that when there is a lot of unpunishable contact which goes on in the same game. And their bosses agree with that philosophy, and the resulting basketball games are terrific.
I really enjoyed the Duke-Maryland game last night (til I fell asleep from a long week!), and it was very physical, but such great basketball - especially the first half.
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