OK, let’s start here: The international game is no doubt a very different style of basketball, with a slight variation on certain rules, a wider lane and a 24-second shot clock. But no matter the rules, the level of competition or the continent on which a game is played, one must ponder the strategy employed by Serbia in the finals seconds of Kansas’ 66-65 victory on early Wednesday at the World University Games.
With the score tied at 65 in the final seconds, and Kansas’ United States squad looking for a game-winning basket, the Serbian team elected to intentionally foul Wayne Selden, putting the junior guard at the free-throw line.