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College hoops coaches and risk aversion: The troubling trouble of foul trouble

Related Topics: Ken Pomeroy, Larry Hunter

Ken Pomeroy is going in-depth on how college basketball coaches handle foul trouble—namely, how much they let kids in foul trouble play. Pomeroy looked at first-half playing time data for players with two fouls, or rather, guys who reached the “point of severe foulocity.” (I made that last bit up.)

This data is more fun facty than instructive, but I found it interesting to see which coaches were stingy and which were, shall we say, giving few cares.

Tops on the give-few-cares list from Pomeroy’s seven-year dataset: our old pal Larry Hunter. (He was on Herb’s staff at State.