KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Curtis Shaw can sense the uproar coming from a mile away.
Shaw, the Big 12’s coordinator of men’s basketball officials, outlined a number of new officiating tweaks in his annual presentation for the conference’s media day Tuesday at Sprint Center. He expects one new interpretation, involving the so-called cylinder play, will get the most scrutiny early on.
“It's going to be controversial because we're going to have a kid laying there with a bloody nose or broken jaw, and the foul's going to be on him,” Shaw said. “But as we told the coaches, don't get that close.