NCAA proposes rules changes to college basketball
The NCAA men's basketball rules committee has proposed some changes with the goals of reducing physicality in the sport (to increase scoring) and speed games up.
The proposals include:
- Reducing the shot clock to 30 seconds.
- Strict enforcement of defensive rules (apparently officials weren't doing this before?).
- Providing offensive players the same verticality protections as defensive players.
- Moving the restricted-area arc out from three feet to four feet.
- Decreasing the number of timeouts from five to four, with no more than three carrying over to the second half.
- Instructing officials to more strictly enforce resumption of play after timeouts and after a player fouls out.
- Team timeouts within 30 seconds of media timeouts will become media timeouts, with the exception of the first media timeout of the second half.
- Coaches will no longer be allowed to call live-ball timeouts.
- The 10-second backcourt rule will no longer reset following a timeout.
- Eliminating the five-seconds closely guarded rule.
- Reducing the number of technical foul shots for hanging on the rim to one.
- Allowing dunks during pregame warmups.
The committee has had some misses in recent years (the "let's never call charges" fiasco, for example) but these changes will likely be pretty popular, even if coaches are reticent to give up timeouts.These are all proposals, to become rules they must be approved by the NCAA's playing rules oversight panel on June 8.
