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[icallfouls]

See the attached Jan 14, 2003 news release from the NCAA. It appears thatI didn't read the last sentence in its entirety, in that the trapezoid will not be used.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
Wednesday, January 14, 2003 Marty Benson
Liaison to Men's Basketball
Rules Committee

Heather Perry
Liaison to Women's Basketball
Rules Committee

BASKETBALL THREE-POINT LINE AND LANE TO REMAIN THE SAME

INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Executive Committee, meeting at the NCAA Convention, ruled that the three-point line will remain at its current distance (19 feet, 9 inches from the center of the basket to the outside edge of the three-point line), for all three divisions. The free-throw lane also will remain the current width and configuration.

An original recommendation from the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees to extend the three-point line and change the free-throw lane to a trapezoid starting in 2004-05 for men's basketball, and to extend the three-point line for women's basketball starting in 2004-05, had been considered but the divisional governing bodies removed the free-throw lane piece from that proposal.

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