Why Seth Greenberg loves college basketball's new charge semi-circle, and some other things from him

When Virginia Tech’s basketball team began practice on Friday, coach Seth Greenberg kicked off his ninth season in Blacksburg with the kind of gabfest that media vultures have come to expect from him – detailed, brutally honest and even a bit amusing.

Some of the most interesting things Greenberg said came at the end of his chat with the vultures, as he talked about the impact of college basketball’s new arc – a restricted area under the basket where a player cannot draw a charge, like the NBA has.

Here are some more details on the three-foot-wide semi-circle. This is merely an official marker for an area that