Women’s Basketball Rules Committee recommends flopping penalty - NCAA.org
If a proposal by the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee is approved for the 2023-24 season, women's basketball players judged to have flopped would be issued
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Point of emphasis
Committee members are concerned about the uptick in bench decorum and misconduct incidents that took place during the 2022-23 season.
There were significant increases in intentional fouls, technical fouls and disqualifying fouls last season.
- If a proposal by the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee is approved for the 2023-24 season, women's basketball players judged to have flopped would be issued a warning on the first offense, with a technical foul being charged for any subsequent infractions.
- After a thorough discussion, rules committee members recommended reducing the restricted-area arc from 4 feet in the lane to the area directly underneath the basket. Defenders cannot establish a legal guarding position directly underneath the basket. The proposal would also eliminate the lower defensive box rule.
- Players would be allowed to wear numbers 0-99.
- Schools would no longer have to submit a waiver for players to wear religious headwear, provided it is safe for competition.
- An amber light strip would be permitted on the backboard to signal the end of a shot-clock period.
- An optional rule would allow for live video to be transmitted to the bench area. This has been an experimental rule for the past two years.
- A new class of technical fouls would be assessed to the team and not an individual offender. Delay-of-game warnings and flopping will fall under this category.
- When the shot clock is off at the end of a quarter or overtime, officials would use the game clock to determine when a 10-second backcourt violation has occurred.
- A permissive rule would permit conferences to implement an off-site collaborative replay system to assist game officials with replay situations.
- The shot clock would be reset to 20 seconds or the time remaining, whichever is greater, when there is a foul by the nonshooting team, but not against the shooter, during a try in flight that does not strike the ring or flange.
- Defenders would be prohibited from placing their body on the ball handler/dribbler.
- Officials would be allowed to use replay throughout the entire game for off-ball foul scoring plays; the review would be conducted during the next media timeout or intermission.
