[Dan_ref]

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.

Hold on here Scrappy. The POE as posted here includes these words:

Only when the following occurs shall the penalty not be applied:
1. The force of the contact by the offensive player is such that it is
inconsequential, but the defensive player fakes a foul.
2. When the defensive player has legally established a position under the
basket and contact occurs after the ball passes through the net, unless
the defensive player has been placed at a disadvantage (e.g., inability to
rebound, unable to put ball in play without delay.)

This is the first time I've seen in words any reference to severity (actually lack of severity) of contact or a defender's position under the basket with regards to calling these fouls in ncaa-m. So while I agree that the 'restricted area' has been declared a no-no (yet again) we are finally given justification for passing on some calls which is quite similar to how it's been called for a while now.

And btw, I'm not even sure that no-calls on huge crashes under the basket are as common as you make them out to be. Most of us do actually call *something* on huge crashes, regardless of where they happen.