NCAA Hand-Checking Article - USAToday

[johnny d]

In response to your question, Jetmet, I think it is going to be much harder for the players/coaches to adjust than the officials. As officials, we don't have to change much at all. We have always seen the contact with the hands and arms. In the past, we had to use some judgment to decide if that was affecting the play or not. Now we just have to call what we see. I think this is a minor adjustment. The players and coaches have to completely rethink and rework how they have been playing or coaching defense for years. Pretty much every aspect of how they guard ball handlers needs to be changed. This is much more drastic than what we as officials have to change.

[HawkeyeCubP]

I think the commentary previously in this thread about the MSU-KY game is spot-on. The players literally often looked incredulous about many of the fouls they were being called for, as though they're mostly unaware of what they're doing that's being penalized. I think it's going to take a lot of film breakdown to analyze and personally see what they're doing and being called for before it starts to click for them in practice and in games.

I worked a preseason D1 men's intrasquad scrimmage, and the HC was A) asking us to call it as tightly as the POE's/preseason video stated, and B) frequently stopping the game to insert coaching points on how to play (primarily perimeter) defense without violating.

I think it's just going to take a lot of proactive work with their teams by the coaching staffs, consistent enforcement by the officials (which, by watching the games on TV last night, is happening so far), and HC's not throwing the officials or the POE's under the bus in pressers and on-court interviews.

It's certainly having a positive effect on how those guys play defense, though. Lots of hands up. I personally love it.