College Basketball becoming unwatchable because of excessive foul calls

College Basketball has become hard to watch because of the excessive foul calls.

I can’t be alone in this notion: college basketball has become increasingly difficult to watch because of the excessive ticky-tack foul calls. Watching Tuesday night’s Michigan State vs Oakland game was evidence that college basketball needs to scale back on what it calls a foul because it’s getting out of control.

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A year ago, referees were instructed to call more “hand-check” fouls, which was annoying at the time, but it worked out alright.

This year, the refs are being told to crack down on fouls more than ever before. Call a foul on basically any sort of contact, whether it be a touch or a push. Heck, I’ve even seen some players look at the guy with the ball wrong and get whistled for a foul.

The Michigan State vs Oakland game was the last straw for me.

Watching these kids play their hearts out only to stand at the foul line for half the game as there were 62 total fouls called and 90 free throws shot, combined. That should never happen in a college basketball game and it just shows a weaker system for judging these fouls.

Don’t get me wrong, I love college basketball and will watch it until the day I die, but if there are going to be this many fouls, I might as well fast forward to the final minutes of the game to miss all the free-throw shooting.

College basketball is losing fans every day because of this as well as scaring potential new fans away. No one wants to watch a three-hour college basketball game because the fouls have stopped play that much. The only time a three-hour game should ever be acceptable is if it’s in three or four overtimes.

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Let the boys play, refs, and ease up on the whistles.