The NCAA men's basketball rules committee has been meeting this week and came away with some proposed changes today.
1. Reduce the shot clock to 30 seconds.
2. Strict enforcement of defensive rules, re: fouling.
3. Providing offensive players same principles of verticality protections as defensive players.
4. Move restricted area arc out from 3 feet to 4 feet.
5. Reduce number of timeouts from 5 to 4, with no more than 3 carrying over to second half.
6. Stricter enforcement of resumption of play coming out of timeouts and after a player fouls out.
7. Team timeouts within 30 seconds of a media timeout become the media timeout, with exception of first team timeout of the second half.
8. Eliminate coach-called live ball timeouts and 10 second backcourt timer will not reset with timeout.
9. Hanging on rim technical reduced to 1 shot; elimination of 5-second closely guarded; allow pregame warmup dunking.
All of those came from the March Madness Twitter account: https://twitter.com/marchmadness. They're still tweeting some out so I'll edit this post to add them.
All in all, I can't find much fault with any of those proposals. They would improve the game quite a bit.
1. Reduce the shot clock to 30 seconds.
2. Strict enforcement of defensive rules, re: fouling.
3. Providing offensive players same principles of verticality protections as defensive players.
4. Move restricted area arc out from 3 feet to 4 feet.
5. Reduce number of timeouts from 5 to 4, with no more than 3 carrying over to second half.
6. Stricter enforcement of resumption of play coming out of timeouts and after a player fouls out.
7. Team timeouts within 30 seconds of a media timeout become the media timeout, with exception of first team timeout of the second half.
8. Eliminate coach-called live ball timeouts and 10 second backcourt timer will not reset with timeout.
9. Hanging on rim technical reduced to 1 shot; elimination of 5-second closely guarded; allow pregame warmup dunking.
All of those came from the March Madness Twitter account: https://twitter.com/marchmadness. They're still tweeting some out so I'll edit this post to add them.
All in all, I can't find much fault with any of those proposals. They would improve the game quite a bit.
Last edited:
