re: College Basketball vs NBA: Better Basketball?

It was not better defense at the college level. It was those players being able to get away with murder by not having a foul called. A guy beats you off the dribble? Slap his arms as hard as you can. Plus if you did get called for there is no continuation.

That and college coaches all micromanaged the game by having their teams run a snails pace in the half court vs these defenses who had the heavy advantage because of the rules.