Free throws with 4th quarter time expired

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Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I believe that NCAA only recently made that change. The two levels were aligned on this for many years.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

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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