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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4994407, member: 71"]
It was quite a few years earlier than the six personal foul rule.

In the 1986-1987 season the NCAA adopted a universal three point line (I think it was 19'9" but could have been a different distance), prior to that (beginning I believe in 1982-1983) individual conferences were allowed to use three point lines, at the distance of their choosing, for conference games only.

The BE adopted six fouls before disqualification for the 1989-1990 season (Dream Season for UConn fans) but scrapped it shortly after (don't recall if it lasted a second season) as among other things, all but one BE school (we were the outlier) dramatically underperformed in the NCAA tournament due in large part to foul trouble (BE players got a bit too accustomed to having an extra foul before fouling out).

I still contend that the (stupid) six foul rule impacted our OT loss to Duke in the regional final as Scott Burrell fouling out in the second half hurt us tremendously.
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