live ball contact- technical foul?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by refnjoe

Anyone else see the Kentucky v. Chattanooga?

At one point, there was a technical foul called on Kentucky pointguard Derrick Jasper, reportedly for pushing off against Kevin Bridgewaters. I thought perhaps there was more to it, but if there was taunting or anything of that nature, it wasn't evident in the replays.

The announcers seemed to indicate that the T was just for the contact, which didn't seem flagrant.

Anyway, I wondered about the rule. As I understand it, you can't have a T for contact during a live ball- it could be ruled as intentional or flagrant, but not a T? Is there a difference under NCAA rules?

There's no difference in this example.

[just another ref]

Didn't see it, first I've heard of it, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the announcers made a mistake.

[refnjoe]

My first thought was that the announcers made a mistake, and perhaps the call was intentional foul. But the officially clearly signaled a T.

If the announcers got the reason for the call wrong, so has the media...

If it wasn't for the contact, I don't know what it was for.

[btaylor64]

Who got the ball? the offended team or did they go to POI? Cause if it was contact and their was a T given then it was an intentional technical and the offended team receives the ball at the division line.