Intentional Foul

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Originally posted by RookieDude
The 4A player took a step toward the 3A player and using his hip...knocked the 3A player two or three steps sideways.
The ball was nowhere near the two players.
The foul didn't look hard enough to be flagrant...but, a common foul didn't seem like enough "punishment".

The ball is live, so this is a personal foul of some sorty. It is intentional? From the NCAA rules:


Appendix III. Officiating guidelines

Section 6. Intentional Personal Fouling
Guidelines for calling the intentional personal foul are:

d. Grabbing, holding or pushing a player away from the ball is an intentional personal foul.


Based on this, I'd say that this is an intentional foul. Is it flagrant?


Rule 4.

Section 26. Foul

Art. 4. Flagrant personal foul, live ball (women: flagrant foul). A flagrant personal foul shall be a personal foul that involves severe or excessive contact with an opponent or involves contact that is extreme in nature while the ball is live.


From your description, it doesn't sound as though the contact was severe or excessive or extreme. Not flagrant.

My call: Intentional personal foul.