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Old Mon Dec 15, 2008, 11:51am
ma_ref ma_ref is offline
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Sounds like with the calls that were made everything was handled correctly.

It kind sounds like one of those "had to be there" situations for us to debate the intentional foul, and while I more or less agree with turning a blind eye to the bench personnel, I'm left wondering if a flagrant should've been called on A35 instead. The contact you describe doesn't seem to fit any of the 5 examples of an intentional personal foul under NCAA rules. Granted the rule says that it is not limited to these examples, but I think the underlying nature of the rules involves contact which is going to either prevent a team/player from scoring, or stopping the game clock. If B15 then retaliated with a punch to the face of A35, do you then still have intentional foul on A and flagrant foul on B? What if A's push caused B to fall to the ground?

It's unfortunate that B's comment to A immediately before the contact was not able to be heard, so we can only go with what we actually witness, even though B's comment almost certainly pushed A over the edge.
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