Cylinder Plays

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Freddy

I don't get it.
I suspect I'm missing something here.
Is there some POE for NCAA-M that some of us don't know about?
What's this "cylinder" terminology as applied here?
What makes this any sort of defensive foul?

I reserve the right to be wrong, but it looked like the defender was easily within his vertical and that status was violated by the offensive player.

Help me understand this here.

This is really not so much a POE, this is just an interpretation of what they want called. They want players to stop crowding the ball handler or the ball handler throwing themselves into defenders. It is based on verticality, but there are other parts to this situation. I am not saying I agree with it, but this was addressed the last two years an big time this year in the NCAA videos to the coaches and officials. I think this is overall a bad rule, but I get why the rule is there.

Peace