one in four years

[JeffTheRef]

on this situation, not that anyone has uncovered. So I am trying to reference 'common practice'. Are you suggesting that it is common practice, when a player has picked up the ball and has it at waist level or below and it is batted out of his hands, to consider that a blocked shot?

I dont' know. I don't think so - though perhaps the ramifications of whether it is or isn't rarely come up!

I don't think I want to ask a focus group of statisticians . . . although, good God, there is an NCAA manual for basketball statisticians, is there not? Perhaps we should check it out . . .