Needed college basketball rule changes.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by katie118

When a team in the double bonus gets fouled in the last minute of the 2nd half or overtime, they should get 3 shots instead of 2 (for shooting fouls too). A foul is supposed to penalize a team and should not be used to a team's advantage. This will make it harder - but not impossible - for teams to come back by intentionally fouling their opponent and also eliminates the intentional foul late in the game committed by a team up by three - essentially guaranteeing a win for a team just because they intentionally broke the rules.

(note that this would not have had an effect on the KU-OSU game because Kansas had only committed enough fouls to put Ohio State in the single bonus, but that is kind of what reminded me of this)

Also, eliminate one media timeout per half (have them at the first stop under 15:00, 10:00, and 5:00) even if they added an extra commercial to each break.

Eliminate the 5-second "closely guarded" violation or limit it to held ball situations only. Its always baffled me that a team "can be rewarded with possession for "actively playing defense" even when in many cases they never even touch the ball.

Katie:

Since 1+1 Bonus Free Throws are shot for Common Fouls which are the 7th, 8th, and 9th Team Fouls of the half, and 2 Free Throws are shot for CFs starting with the 10th TF of the half. About ten years or so ago, I floated the following idea: Keep the 1+1 Bonus as is; shoot 2 FTs for CFs which are the 10th, 11th, and 12th TFs in the half; and then shoot 3 FTs for CFs starting with the 13th TF of the half.


I like this idea.


NCAA Women's Closely Guarded Rule is only while holding the ball in both the Backcourt and the Front Court; this is a holdover from the NAGWS Rules which was taken from the FIBA Rules which is still the same even though FIBA has adopted a Backcourt Violation Rule now. I would like to see the NFHS and NCAA Men's Committees adopt the NCAA Women's Rule but only in the Front Court.

MTD, Sr.

[Texas Aggie]

A solution in search of a problem.

You're joking, right? You really think taking 10+ minutes to play the last 2 clock minutes in almost EVERY game is how basketball should be played?

Saving time outs is one thing; endless free throw shooting is ridiculous. That doesn't even speak to the idiotic idea that a team can gain an advantage by consistent intentional rules infractions. Name one other sport that allows that?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

You're joking, right? You really think taking 10+ minutes to play the last 2 clock minutes in almost EVERY game is how basketball should be played?

Saving time outs is one thing; endless free throw shooting is ridiculous. That doesn't even speak to the idiotic idea that a team can gain an advantage by consistent intentional rules infractions. Name one other sport that allows that?

Let us not exaggerate the situation. Most basketball games do not take that long to begin with and this part of the game takes long just because of foul situations. And yes I can name another sport and it is baseball. Baseball has not clock and drags because when the game is close and even out of hand coaches/managers do all kinds of substitutions that extend the game much longer than 10 minutes. This to me is a solution looking for a problem as the people that complain about this are often participants and especially officials because they want to save a few minutes to be somewhere else. As I said if teams make FTs this strategy does not work. And if you give players more FTs there is no guarantee it will still work and certainly not at the HS level. I cannot count the number of times where if players made FTs near the end of the game, they would have won that game. And I am not just referring to just fouling situations near the end of the game either.

Peace