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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1814703, member: 716"] I'm surprised the percentage isn't higher. There's so little to be lost by leaving fouls on the floor; it baffles me that more coaches don't follow Boeheim's lead. There have been times when we've had short teams and have lost games due to foul trouble, but those times are few and far between. For the most part, Boeheim's playing it safe by leaving a two-foul guy out there to close the half. He knows that he can hide a guy, he knows that the refs will at least subconsciously try not to disqualify the player, and he's often giving us a personnel advantage (assuming the other team is without a two-foul player for the last couple minutes of the half). As a bonus, this gives viewers an clear idea of which broadcasters have done their homework - Raycom and the like tend to have at least one broadcaster expressing nothing short of astonishment that Boeheim would leave a kid in the game with two fouls. [/QUOTE]