List of changes proposed by NCAA rules committee
After the NCAA men’s basketball rules committee met over the past three days in Indianapolis, several proposals for rule changes have been made.
Most notably, the reduction of the shot clock from 35 seconds to 30 seconds should potentially help improve the pace of play, which has been a common cause for concern among coaches, media members and fans.
“We looked at the survey regarding all of these issues and maybe the shot clock in particular,” said chair of the NCAA men’s basketball rules committee Rick Byrd, “and well over 60 percent of coaches were in favor of the reduction of the shot clock and that had some impact on that decision.”
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel must approve the proposals when the panel discusses them via conference call on June 8 before they become official.
“Writing rules is not always easy, and there’s a lot of people in the room with different viewpoints,” Byrd said. “But the way this committee came together to try and do what’s best for our game is pretty impressive to me.”
Other proposed rule changes also include:
– Number of timeouts reduced from five to four, with no more than three being carried over into the second half
– Team timeouts within 30 seconds prior to media timeouts will become media timeouts with the exception of the first team timeout in second half
– Restricted-area arc moved from three feet to four feet
– Eliminating coach-called live ball timeouts
– Ten-second backcourt timer will not reset with timeout
– Hanging on rim technical foul reduced to one shot
– Elimination of five-second closely guarded
– Allow pregame warmup dunking
– Allowing officials to review a potential shot clock violation on the monitor on made field goals throughout the entire game
– Allowing officials to penalize faking fouls during the use of video to review a possible flagrant foul
