Hey Refs! Check this out!
If you are an SEC Basketball ref, click here. I suspect you are unaware of this particular site and I think it would be quite helpful. It's a link to the official NCAA rule book.
Here's something I noticed right off the bat:
Section 12, Art. 1 - "A player shall not excessively swing his or her arm(s) or elbow(s), even without contacting an opponent." Now, how many times have you seen a player come down with a rebound and then start swinging his pointy elbows wildly so people won't try and pull away his rebound? A lot, right? Me, too. Saw it last night, matter of fact, and it was obvious.
Section 12, Art. 3, seems to give the refs an "out" with regards to this: "Action of arm(s) and elbow(s) resulting from total body movement as in pivoting or movement of the ball incidental to feinting with it, releasing it, or moving it to prevent a held ball or loss of controll shall not be considered excessive." Uh huh... well, it's still happening and it's not being called appropriately, if at all. Refs! Fooey!


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