Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought the purpose of tweaking the rules before the beginning of the college basketball season was to open up the game and create more scoring and excitement.

At the early part of the season that is exactly what it did, but then the officials started calling games the same way they had for years.  That is why we had the game we had Monday night.  114 points combined between UConn and Kentucky in one of the most difficult National Championship games to watch in recent memory.

When you let players maul each other on every possession it is more than a little bit difficult to score.  Combine that with a lack of an offense from either team and that is why the NCAA college basketball National Champion scored 60 points.  In fact, in the last three tournament games for the Huskies they scored exactly 183 points and still won those games by a combined 22 points.

As a lover of college basketball who wants to see the game regain its popularity, I really feel like there needs to be some changes made.  I thought that the modifications to how the game would be called this season was a fantastic start and opened up things much more, until they stopped calling games that way.  Sometimes we forget that basketball isn’t supposed to be a contact sport and needs to be called that way.    If they continue to let it go the way some officials have during these tournament games than college basketball will slowly dwindle in obscurity and that is something I do not want to see.