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[QUOTE="EricLA, post: 4472057, member: 26"]
Just my $.02. Players will use whatever the rules allow in their arsenal.

In the past, when UCONN would especially play overly physical teams like ECU or UCF, UCONN would get beaten up the entire game because from the other teams' perspective, "refs won't call every foul".

Really? Why not? get 3 players with 3 fouls in Q1, and I suspect the overly physical play will instantly stop. It is really on schools who teach "play hard but don't foul" to continuously call it out to the refs, the conference, etc. Teams like UCONN who play "cleaner" ball, but have more talent, are usually the teams who are impacted by the "foul on very possession" style of play.

Other teams, like ND, who are FAMOUS for phantom flopping (Duke men as well. Sorry Traid and Cam), but I think that in the future,  more use of the monitor to look at phantom flopping. At first it will be a PITA for time stoppage, but once they start penalizing teams for the faking, they will eventually stop. All IMHO of course.
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