this has been some easy rsfckin money ever play......by early second half the games and spread are over and I don't have to watch it anymore(and don't really care to lol).....
Looks like we are in agreement again - San Diego State left it all on the court on Saturday, while UConn cruised. I don't see SDSU winning this one (have to make sure my brother, the SDSU grad, isn't seeing this...)
You know what that means, folks - go heavy on SDSU tonight.
To be honest, when I saw that missed dunk to start the second half, my first thought was, "Don't tell me SDSU's problem was with the rim" (and yes, one rim being less forgiving than the other is a "thing" - that's one of the reasons they change sides at
halftime) - and when they got to within 5, I was thinking that the curse just might strike again, until I noticed that UConn was already in double bonus.
Didn't you say the first half line was 4? I would have gone heavier on that - SDSU has been a second half team pretty much all year. Still, money is money.
But never mind that; the big news from that game was, "OMG, there is actually a college basketball official who remembers that there is still a 3-second rule."
And while I'm on the subject of college basketball, the NCAA is seriously considering, starting with the summer of 2024, to let teams play two "exhibition" games (or a 4-team tournament where they don't play more than 2 games) during the summer; they are
allowed to play other Division I teams. I think the NCAA is going to use these to test out experimental rules, the way it used to with the Alaska and Hawaii tournaments, and occasionally still does with the postseason NIT.
Predictions on what rules they want to test:
1. You need six to foul out, maybe along with having to sit until halftime if you get (choose one: 4, 5) in the first half
(1a. You can't foul out, but any foul starting with a player's 6th is 2 shots (unless it is normally 3) plus the ball out of bounds.)
2. Make the free throw lane 16' wide (Alaska/Hawaii tournaments were notorious for testing court changes, usually involving where players lined up on free throws, although I think they tested out various 3-point line distances as well)
3. 8 seconds to get the ball over the center line (I think the current rule is still 10 - there was one play last night where somebody took 9 to get it across)
4. 24-second shot clock
5. You can take three steps without it being traveling (NCAA and NFHS are pretty much the only organizations worldwide that do not do this)
6. No more 1-and-1s - all "bonus" fouls are "double bonus"
#6 is the poster child for "we need a separate set of rules for just Division I"; way too many small schools think that the only way they can be competitive in half of their games is to force bad free throw shooters to the line for 1-and-1.
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