define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); chris crowley – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:19:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court How Do Fans Feel About Increased Fouling? A Q&A with a VCU Superfan Chris Crowley http://rushthecourt.net/2013/11/12/how-do-fans-feel-about-increased-fouling-a-qa-with-a-vcu-superfan-chris-crowley/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/11/12/how-do-fans-feel-about-increased-fouling-a-qa-with-a-vcu-superfan-chris-crowley/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:34:32 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=100147

After college basketball had spent the greater part of the last two decades getting more physical and watching scoring decline, the NCAA decided to act this past offseason by re-emphasizing rules against hand-checking and other physical perimeter play in an attempt to speed the game up and increase scoring. For some teams, this increased emphasis will have an outsized impact, none more than VCU. The Rams’ smothering, pressing Havoc defense used to be something nobody wanted to go to war with, leading the nation in steal percentage for each of the last two seasons, according to KenPom.com. To get some [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/11/12/how-do-fans-feel-about-increased-fouling-a-qa-with-a-vcu-superfan-chris-crowley/feed/ 0