Plenty of NCAA hoop rule changes approved

[the Blades]

• The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel today approved a package of proposals and areas of focus for officials in men’s basketball to improve the pace of play, better balance offense with defense and reduce the physicality in the sport.
  
• The key areas officials will focus on in the upcoming season are:
  
  • Perimeter defense, particularly on the dribbler and strictly enforcing directives established before the 2013-14 season.
  • Physicality in post play.
  • Screening, particularly moving screens and requiring the screener to be stationary.
  • Block/charge plays.
  • Allowing greater freedom of movement for players without the ball.
  
  Pace of Play
  
• The most significant is reducing the shot clock to 30 seconds.
• Teams will also have one fewer team timeout (only three can carryover instead of four) in the second half. Officials will focus more on resuming play quickly after a timeout and will issue a delay-of-game warning when a team does not comply and a one-shot technical foul on subsequent violations.
• Adjusting the media timeout procedures to allow a timeout called within 30 seconds of a break (at the 16:30 mark) or at any time after the scheduled media timeout becomes the media timeout.
  
• Removing the ability for a coach to call timeout when the ball is live.
• Allowing a total of only 10 seconds to advance the ball to the front court (with a few exceptions).
• Reducing the amount of time allotted to replace a disqualified player from 20 to 15 seconds.

During the use of a video review to see if a possible flagrant foul occurred, the panel approved a rule that would allow officials to penalize players who fake fouls.

Other proposals approved by the panel include:

• Allowing officials to use the monitor to review a potential shot clock violation on made field goals throughout the entire game.
• Making Class B technical fouls (hanging on the rim and delaying the resumption of play, for example) one-shot technical fouls. Previously, two shots were granted for these types of technical fouls.
• Eliminating the five-second closely guarded rule while dribbling the ball.
• Removing the prohibition on dunking in pregame warmups and at halftime.
• The panel also approved the expansion of the restricted-area arc from 3 feet to 4 feet.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Why did they eliminate the 5 second closely guarded rule?

 

[the Blades]

Why did they eliminate the 5 second closely guarded rule?

Is it an NBA rule ? not sure, I've never seen it called... My guess is because of the quicker shot clock.

 

[the Blades]

more from the Courant with women too:

NCAA Men Adopt 30-Second Shot Clock; Women Will Play 4 Quarters

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

It's going to lead to zone defenses being played more, and more bad shots being hoisted, although it will favor the athletic teams who can then initiate transition off bad shots. We could actually see more bad shots and more scoring.

 

[the Blades]

Also when reading all these rule changes I guess when Geno talks about scoring and rugby scrums in the men's game ......the NCAA listens, LOL !

Geno Hammers Quality of NCAA Men's Basketball

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

The more I think about these changes the more I think they will help UConn and teams that have athleticism and speed. The new rules will favor teams with speed and athleticism and punish slowdown, methodical type offenses. The initiation of the halfcourt offense will have to start quickly and good ball pressure will likely result in many bad shots as the shot clock winds down. When this happens, the teams that can rebound and transition quickly will be rewarded.

The downside is that there will be fewer upsets of teams that are superior athletically. Ball control will be harder and tempo control will be harder.