What's an injured player doing on the court in the first place? If the player is too injured to shoot free throws then they should be on the bench rather than on the court.
And as other posters have stated, there's plenty of reason (ejection, technical foul, etc) for a college coach to not send a 'goon' on the court to hack a player. Yes there's a chance the rule could be exploited, but there's no doubt that teams could exploit the previous rule so nothing is really lost from the change.
I do believe this rule is a bit of an overkill and like yourself don't like that the rule gives the opposing coach the choice of shooter. My take on the Tiller situation is that if he was too injured to shoot free throws then he should never been substituted back into the game immediately following the free throws. The fact is that after the Marquette game, Tiller was a 50% free throw shooter which means he was nowhere near as effective. So by the numbers, Missouri certainly gained an advantage placing a better free throw shooter at the line. It also shows that Tiller did truly tweak his injury, but you have to wonder could he have shot the free throws since he was able to continue playing after the foul shots were taken. Mike Anderson would have probably been able to avoid this situation had he simply kept Tiller out of the game for a few minutes. That's my only gripe with Anderson in this instance.
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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
As mentioned before, this rule allows the possibility for an opposing coach to foul a player who he knows is already injured and then select a bad free throw shooter to shoot game changing free throws. It also allows the opportunity for a coach to put in a 'goon' to hack a player on the arms hard enough to cause a potential injury, forcing a new player to shoot. It was hoped that the NCAA wouldn't adopt this form of the rule, but they unfortunately have done just that. It'll only take one stupid act this year to force this rule to be changed back. I just hope that player doesn't end up with a permanent injury that affects their career.
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