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How a change to the charge rule has led to increased offense

One of the biggest rule changes to hit college basketball happened last June. And it might change the way you watch this year’s March Madness.This season is on pace to be the most efficient offensive season in men’s Division I history, mostly because of how the block/charge foul is being officiated. Last summer, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee altered the interpretation of what a charge is. A help-side defender used to be required to be set before an offensive player went airborne; now, he must be set by the time the offensive player’s plant foot hits the floor.That’s the technical definition. In practical terms? “Kids aren’t just jumping in front of each other,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl says. “It has increased the offenses.”This was the plan. In October, Big 12 director of officials Curtis Shaw said that he’d reviewed 100 called charges from the previous season and that 96 of those would now be called blocks. “It’s almost impossible to take a legal

How a change to the charge rule has led to increased offense

One of the biggest rule changes to hit college basketball happened last June. And it might change the way you watch this year’s March Madness.This season is on pace to be the most efficient offensive season in men’s Division I history, mostly because of how the block/charge foul is being officiated. Last summer, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee altered the interpretation of what a charge is. A help-side defender used to be required to be set before an offensive player went airborne; now, he must be set by the time the offensive player’s plant foot hits the floor.That’s the technical definition. In practical terms? “Kids aren’t just jumping in front of each other,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl says. “It has increased the offenses.”This was the plan. In October, Big 12 director of officials Curtis Shaw said that he’d reviewed 100 called charges from the previous season and that 96 of those would now be called blocks. “It’s almost impossible to take a legal

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