NCAA DI - Intentional Personal Foul

[Gator]

Coach tells the official by her bench, opposite where the throw in will take place, that her team is going to foul ASAP to stop the clock. (This was discussed by the coach in the media conference after the game.) Ball is inbounded to B2 near opposite side of court and A1 fouls B1 in front of the bench. ie, the ball was WAY away from the B2 player fouled. Rule 4-26 Art 6 example says that it is intentional if the player fouled is away from the ball and not directly involved in the play. BTW, Team A won the game and as my team was out of the tourney, I was just an interested observer wondering why it was called a personal and not an intentional personal. Any additional information about the rule which would explain this? (BTW, Team A is 2 ranked in the NCAA tourney and this was the semi finals of the conference tournament, which they won too. Great coach and great team - I'm just trying to understand what happened here.)