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Old Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:22pm
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I believe that NCAA only recently made that change. The two levels were aligned on this for many years.
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Correct -- this year.


Other than the possibility of influence from Las Vegas, why in the world would there be any impetus to change this rule and allow meaningless free throws? Especially when this scenario is already so rare in games with monitors*, where only a foul on an airborne shooter post-release after time has expired would ever result in personal foul FTs with the lane cleared. Seems like a needless rule change to me. The NFL finally did away with meaningless conversions a couple of years ago, yet NCAAB goes the opposite direction? Weird.

* Yes, I know the majority of NCAA games don’t have monitors. But those games don’t get the visibility that drives rules changes, and they typically aren’t wagered on, either!



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Old Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:56am
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Other than the possibility of influence from Las Vegas, why in the world would there be any impetus to change this rule and allow meaningless free throws? ...



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That is 100% why the rule was changed and the same reason they shoot free throws in the NBA.

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Old Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:17am
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Other than the possibility of influence from Las Vegas, why in the world would there be any impetus to change this rule and allow meaningless free throws? Especially when this scenario is already so rare in games with monitors*, where only a foul on an airborne shooter post-release after time has expired would ever result in personal foul FTs with the lane cleared. Seems like a needless rule change to me. The NFL finally did away with meaningless conversions a couple of years ago, yet NCAAB goes the opposite direction? Weird.

* Yes, I know the majority of NCAA games don’t have monitors. But those games don’t get the visibility that drives rules changes, and they typically aren’t wagered on, either!



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Id wager it would be to prevent stupid crap from happening that would lead to someone's vacation.

I've had to give some slight rants to partners here lately about not getting off the floor after games. We narrowly avoided a situation last week that I wouldn't if had to head about if they would of left the game ball alone after the game was over.
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