NCAA Tournament - Evening Games Open Thread

You can intentionally foul in soccer without being carded let alone a red card, teams take delay of game penalties on purpose to affect field position, in NASCAR drivers willingly take certain penalties for advantages, it happens in just about every sport - it's part of strategy.

I have NO problem with fouling down the stretch to extent the game. What I do have a problem with is the "Hack-A-Player" strategy. That's bullshit because that player doesn't have the ball. It should be 1 dead ball free throw and retain possession if a team does that.

Now if Shaq, DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard, etc. are in the game and those players get the ball and they're fouled...so be it, go to the line and make your damn free throws. The other teams fouls will build up. At least they have the ball. But hugging a man 70 feet from the basket without the ball is ridiculous.

3 shots if you're outside the 3 point line, 2 shots if you're inside...however, now you're forcing the refs to make a judgement call.

What if you're WVU or VCU and you're just a pressing team? The game is tight late and you're doing what you've done all game.

You can't honestly say it's an intentional foul.

Or how many times do you see a team down 3 with a minute to go? They're playing physical and they're trapping and pressing, but they don't need to foul in that situation.

Texas A&M just won a game because of this. If you call an intentional foul when they're just doing what any team would do - that's silly.

It's just something for message board folks to complain about, but if we're honestly asking for refs to be subjective and make judgement calls on what is and isn't intentional - they're going to be going to the monitor every game and it's going to be even more painful to watch. It's a nice thought, the 3 shots for intentionally fouling, but now you're asking people to judge what is/isn't intentional. If you say you got 3 shots for any foul that late, you're hurting teams like VCU, WVU who run that D all game. You're also allowing a team up 2 with 40 seconds to go to go up 5 if they hit all 3. You eliminate the trade 3 for 2 strategy.