2019 NIT experimental rules

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by frezer11

... why not just switch to the quarter system like the women's game

Originally Posted by AremRed

Because $$$.

Please explain the relationship between money (for the NCAA or for the television networks) and quarters/halves. When a switch is made from halves to quarters (or from quarters to halves as was done by private prep schools here in Connecticut) aren't adjustments normally made to the number (and possibly spacing) of timeouts (media and otherwise) to account for two fewer intermissions when switching from halves to quarters?

If adjustments are made to the number and spacing of timeouts how would this adversely impact the number of commercial breaks?

[ilyazhito]

The NIT rules for the past few years have seemed to cycle between quarter-like segments and actual quarters. Perhaps next year they will experiment will actual quarters (or there will be actual quarters coming in the new 2019-20 edition of the rulebook), so there is no need to experiment with actual 10-minute quarters this year.

The "under 2 minutes remaining" foul rule is copied from the NBA, and is an attempt to reduce deliberate fouling at the end of periods if a team has not yet used up its allotment of fouls.