re: How badly does College Basketball need a change?

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They were strict on the rule for about half a season. It took the NBA 3 years to adjust.

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Probably because they saw that it didn't improve the product at all. And it still doesn't change the fact that pro players STILL get in foul trouble with the rules, and pro teams are more equipped to deal with foul trouble because they are far deeper in talent.

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Which leads to teams cranking up and missing 3's. It is how most college teams are forced to deal with a zone nowadays.

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Players can't shoot from anywhere and that's a problem. Why aren't we focusing on getting back to where players can actually shoot a basketball instead of babying them by creating rules that try to dismiss that fundamental problem? And even then, while shooting helps space the floor against the zone, most players don't even know to get the ball to a flasher at the free throw line and elbows and attack with higher percentage methods.

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In 98 over 200 teams averaged 70+ possessions a game, only 58 do now.

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Cool stat, but it doesn't change the fact that the fouls called per possession this season is higher than that of 1998. Again, the problem isn't the officials allowing too physical of play at all.


It's just funny to me because being a Baylor basketball fan, I've seen zone so much under the Scott Drew era. And while everyone seems to hate on Scott Drew's coaching, he's more successful than 90% of the coaches in college because he essentially has bet his entire Baylor career that the other team isn't going to be well coached enough to beat a zone, and he's won a high percentage of those bets. He's not doing anything revolutionary, he just assumes the opponent will lack fundamental basketball (though his first Elite 8 run "Freak/Amoeba Defense" wasn't quite a standard zone).