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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
I think you're totally misunderstanding the POE (or maybe you're misunderstanding how the "big dogs" have been doing it). For years now, there has been an invisible Restricted Area under the basket in NCAA basketball. You see a huge crash and there's no whistle. If you ask why, you get the "under the basket" answer. The POE is not reiterating that philosophy; it is totally repudiating it.
This POE is saying that there is no restricted area anymore for NCAA basketball. If a defender takes a charge, but is directly under the basket, it is to be called a charge. "[T]here are no exceptions to the charge/block rules as to where the illegal contact occurs on the playing court." Position on the court is no longer to be a consideration in calling block/charge plays. Only the contact is to be considered.
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Thanks Scrapper1, that is definitely the way I understood it. It looks as though they are reaching for consistency here. Also, we're going to have more guys running underneath the basket to try and draw this type of foul. I think it's cheap ugly basketball to stand underneath the basket to try and draw a foul on a player driving towards the basket with the ball. To reward the defense is turning the game in the wrong direction. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
You have to wonder that the people in charge of making decisions on the rules today is totally disconnected from the game itself. It's like our president, who has no clue about the cost of gasoline because he doesn't have to buy his own gas, he is totally disconnected from this entire process. Therefore, he could care less if the price of gas goes up.