This may have been discussed elsewhere, but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant its own thread.
The National Invitation Tournament will experiment with four rule changes for this year's event, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
They include:
• A deeper 3-point line. It will be moved back approximately 20 inches to the distance used by FIBA in international competition (22 feet, 1.75 inches).
• A wider free throw lane. It will be extended from 12 to 16 feet, which is used in the NBA.
• Quarters, not halves. The game will still have 40 minutes of game clock, but it will be broken into four 10-minute quarters, which was adopted for the women's college game in 2015. For each quarter, two free throws are awarded once a team reaches five fouls.
• After an offensive rebound, the shot clock will reset to 20 seconds, as opposed to the full 30.
Personally, I think these are all good changes. The only one I'm on the fence about is the widening of the free throw lane, as that could chip away even more at what little is left of low-post offense. The threat of 3-second violations would probably be even higher, and the resulting spacing created by extending the 3-point line and widening of the lane would lead to a much more wide open game.
Silver lining? It would be fascinating to know how much dimensional changes would screw with the principles of the pack-line defense.
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What are the pros and cons of quarters vs halves? Outside of elimination of the one-and-one I don't know what the big difference is.
The thinking is that it creates a more free-flowing game and improves the pace of play. Additionally, I believe it would reduce the number of media time outs.
In the first year after the changes were made to the women's game, the statistics seemed to bear this out (though admittedly, it is a smaller sample size):
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/women-s-basketball-rules-changes-reaping-benefits
I'm experimenting with not having to give a crap what the NIT chooses to do this year!
Fortunately, I won't have to watch the NIT this year!
this year or any of the subsequent years (knock wood)
It's actually a good testing ground in real games that have no serious impact. They started the arc under the basket and the shorter shot clock in the NIT before they got implemented
All of these rules I could see helping us - which is worth considering given that the NCAA generally uses the NIT to test run rule changes they have in the pipeline for the upcoming season.
Deeper 3-point line... First, we suck at guarding the 3, so making the shot more difficult could help negate that weakness. Plus, we have players with legit range from 3, so moving it back a foot shouldn't hurt us too bad.
Wider free throw lane means speed should be able to better beat size on rebounds. If this also comes with a bigger defensive exclusion zone, it could swing in our favor a bit as well.
It sounds like they're talking about eliminating the 1 and 1. Granted, I like it as a collegiate rule, but if its eliminated, I would think it would help us at the line, as I can't count how many times we've missed that front end sometimes.
20 seconds after an offensive rebound... Basically, with our inability to get offensive Rebs (by design) it should help us be able to get more defensive stops when the opponent gets one. Less time to set up a play means a greater chance of taking a bad follow up shot, which should increase possessions for us, especially knowing offensive rebounding has never been, nor will likely ever be one of our strong suits.
When are they going to implement the Rock 'n Jock 20-point secondary basket?
Oh man, I had forgotten about that. I loved the RnJ basketball games. The football games were awful to watch.
Kinda hate all of these except the 3 point line.
Me, to the committee, 'as long as I can remember' - 2017:
Me, to the committee, 2017-?:
I remember when Basketball used to have four quarters before they changed to the halves.
Me too. Like grade school basketball, high school basketball, AAU basketball & professional basketball.
It's almost like the NCAA does their own thing, on their own timeline, whenever they feel like it, without any consideration for things like "conventional wisdom", or "the outside world". Or "the law". /ssssmh
Tony Bennett just got blue balls.
Didn't read, but does the free throw lane actually affect offensive sets (3 sec rule)? The key circle and space underneath are still drawn the same size.
By my understanding, it does change the paint area. I could be wrong though.
But you can see the difference in these two diagrams, since the NBA includes the 2' strips on either side of the key as part of the painted area (to the best of my knowledge).