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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4516515, member: 1131"] The broadcast of last night's Tennessee game (specifically the play where Jillian Hollingshead drove on Aubrey and was initially called for a charge, which was then changed to a block when video showed that Aubrey's heels were in the restricted area) was the first time that I had ever heard the term "lower defensive box". The way Rebecca explained it, if Hollingshead had caught the pass and started her drive in the "lower defensive box" (LDB), then it would be irrelevant whether Aubrey was in the restricted arc. Whether or not Hollingshead's drive started in the LDB was the subject of the video review, which concluded that she was just barely outside the LDB when she caught the pass, so Aubrey could not take a charge in the restricted area. (According to my research, if she had a foot or even a toe in the LDB, she would be considered to be in the LDB.) All this is quite unsatisfying if (like me) you don't know the geometric definition of the LDB. I searched online today for a definition, and I found some confusing verbal definitions but no diagram (very surprising). Apparently the vertical ("north-south") boundaries of the LDB are the baseline and the bottom of the free throw circle -- that is clear enough. But what are the horizontal ("east-west") dimensions? The verbal definitions refer to "tick marks" on the baseline which I've never noticed -- do they even exist? Apparently they are a bit wider than the lane markers, but not too much wider. Since Hollingshead was clearly below the bottom of the free throw circle (possibly straddling that line, but that should be sufficient), the only way she could be outside the LDB is if she was outside its horizontal limits. Who knows the rule? If you don't mind, could you review the play in question and opine on whether you think she was in or out of the LDB at the start of her drive? This is an obscurity in the rule that I had never heard of -- I would like to be enlightened. [/QUOTE]

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