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The NCAA proposed new rules to address how charges are called in college basketball

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We all hate it. At least, I think we all hate it. The idea that the most minuscule level of contact from an offensive player causes the defender to go down, the referee puts one hand behind their head and uses the other to point the opposite way, and the crowd boos as players spend more time acting like they took a bullet as opposed to playing actual defense.

For years, a rule that was well-intentioned in trying to reward a defender who was in an established guarding position and had the right to their space has morphed into a blight on the game.