Foul Fest

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

I did a girls varsity game on Saturday we did it 3 man.we were in the double bonus in the first half for both teams. obviously these teams did not like one another. The schools were about three hours apart so no local rivalry.

The second half started out worse than the first half did, we were in the bonuses before the end of the 3rd quarter. Fouls included a technical on the coach and intentional shortly after that on one her players. 5 players from the visiting team fouled out and a total of 47 fouls were called.

I never saw so many players on the floor throughout a game. They took flopping to a new high or art form. literally on one play I had three players fall onto the floor with no contact whatsoever and as the ball went across the lane a girl dover for it she too end up on the floor and a player attempting a shot tripped over top of her. It was ugly.

this was a varsity contest, what's the most fouls you've ever seen in a varsity game?

You only had 47 fouls! In the Ancient Days (and by Ancient Days I mean mid-1970's), two years in a row I had the Univ. of Miami at Florida International Univ. game in women's college basketball, and my partner and I called 56 fouls in each game. And in the late 1980's I had a boys' varsity game in which my partner and I called 60 fouls including one DF (back when a DF was when two opponents committed PF against each other at the same time) and one IPF.

MTD, Sr.