NCAA Rules Committee to Meet in May; Consider Rules Changes & Officiating

[Red Don]

Replay and physical play are high on NCAA basketball rules agenda

"I think we're at a tipping point," said Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, who also is the chairman of the NCAA men's basketball officiating competition committee. "It's not just rules alone. It's not just officiating alone."

Delany said games are being evaluated on a play-by-play basis for officiating accountability and for coaches, and he said eventually it will be for the public, too. They can find out, for example, 34 calls were right and three calls were unreasonably wrong. Accountability could help, as could transparency.

The biggest concern, at least to Delany and also Art Hyland, the men's basketball secretary-rules editor, is that the current state of the game favors physicality and defense.

The two biggest topics, Hyland said, would likely be shortening the shot clock (from 35 seconds to 30) and expanding the restricted area-arc (from 3 feet to 4 feet). Hyland said, the number of crashes (block/charges) in the NIT was reduced significantly because of the 4-foot restricted-area arc.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-shot-clock-duke-wisconsin-bad-call/25466847/

Anything that would increase the Accountability and Transparency of Officiating would be a major improvement!

 

[Husker Mort]

...how about the get real with program APR not being adversely impacted by 1-and-done players.