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NBC Sports
10-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
NCAA women's rules committee proposes coach's challenge to initiate video review on variety of plays
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee proposed that a coach's challenge be required to initiate a video review of out-of-bounds calls and three other types of plays. The committee met in Indianapolis this week and voted to recommend the change for the 2025-26 season. Proposals must be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel, which is scheduled to meet June 10. Under the proposal, plays that could be challenged at any point during the game include out-of-bounds calls, backcourt violations, whether a change in team possession occurred before the ruling of a foul where free throws would be involved and whether a foul was assessed to the correct player. Officials could not initiate reviews on these calls with the exception of whether a foul was assessed to the correct player. Teams would not be required to have a timeout to make a video review challenge in NCAA women's basketball competition. However, a failed challenge would result in an administrative technical foul for an excessive timeout. 'The committee was concerned with pace of play and the number of reviews occurring at the end of games,' said Nicki Collen, rules committee chair and coach at Baylor. 'This was also an experimental rule in this year's WBIT. By removing the option for officials to review called out-of-bounds violations and allowing coaches to challenge the call, you increase flow at the end of games while still allowing for the opportunity to get the call right.' The committee also proposed, among other things, setting the shot clock to 20 seconds when, following a dead ball, the offense is awarded the ball in its front court; eliminating the rule that jerseys need to be tucked in; a team technical foul for using excessive timeouts or playing with six players when the ball becomes live; and suspending the player and head coach for one game if the player competes in a game that the player should have missed due to a suspension.
Miami Herald
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Video challenge rules proposed to speed up NCAA women's games
The NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee has forwarded a recommendation that, if approved, would make women's basketball coaches the ones to initiate a challenge by video review under certain conditions. The recommendation, made this week at a meeting in Indianapolis, now will be forwarded to the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel for approval. Potential rule changes are set to be discussed June 10. The rules committee suggested the challenge change take effect for the 2025-26 season. Under the proposal, the plays that would be challenged by a coach include those that were ruled as either out-of-bounds or backcourt violations. Officials are the ones to currently initiate the review, but a change could speed up the game. "The committee was concerned with pace of play and the number of reviews occurring at the end of games," said Nicki Collen, rules committee chair and head women's basketball coach at Baylor. "This was also an experimental rule in this year's WBIT. By removing the option for officials to review called out-of-bounds violations and allowing coaches to challenge the call, you increase flow at the end of games while still allowing for the opportunity to get the call right." Teams would not need to have a timeout available to ask for a video challenge, under the proposal. Should a coach unsuccessfully challenge a play, an administrative technical foul for an excessive timeout would be the result. Other proposed rules changes include eliminating the requirement that jerseys need to be tucked in and setting the shot clock at 20 seconds when the offense gets the ball in its front court following a dead ball. --Field Level Media Field Level Media 2023 - All Rights Reserved
USA Today
21-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Quarters vs halves: Why women's, men's NCAA tournament games use different formats
Quarters vs halves: Why women's, men's NCAA tournament games use different formats Show Caption Hide Caption Hannah Hidalgo explains impact of support in women's basketball Hannah Hidalgo explains impact of support in women's basketball It's the same sport, but men's and women's college basketball have different rules. With both the 2025 men's and women's NCAA Tournaments now underway, fans who are tuning in for the first time this season may notice the women's side plays with a smaller ball, with more host sites for the women's compared to the men's. REQUIRED READING: March Madness expert picks: Bracket predictions for 2025 women's NCAA Tournament Almost everyone will notice one of the biggest differences between the men's and women's basketball: the formats of their respective games. Women's college basketball plays four 10-minute quarters, while the men's side plays two 20-minute halves. Here's what you need to know about the rule difference, why it was made and how it impacts the game: How long are women's basketball games? While men's and women's basketball games are the same length (40 minutes), the way they get there differs. Women's basketball has four 10-minute quarters, compared to two 20-minute halves for men's basketball. When did women's college basketball start playing four quarters? Women's basketball was played with two halves leading up to 2014-2015. However, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved that four 10-minute quarters would be used in the 2015-16 season and beyond. The NCAA Women's Basketball Rule Committee recommended the change to enhance the game's flow. The rule was also endorsed by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Board of Directors, before the rule's ultimate approval. In a women's basketball game, each quarter is 10 minutes, which equals 40 minutes, the same as two 20-minute halves in a men's game. Halftime for a women's game is 15 minutes. The rule designation was partly made to eliminate the one-and-one free throws after seven team fouls, which are more prevalent in the men's game. In the new format with four quarters, teams reach the bonus and shoot two free throws on the fifth team foul, similar to the NBA and WNBA. At the beginning of each quarter, the team fouls are reset. REQUIRED READING: Women's March Madness bracket predictions: Expert picks for 2025 NCAA Tournament Why does men's college basketball play two 20-minute halves? When Dr. James Nasmith created the game in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, his original idea was two fifteen-minute halves, with a five-minute rest in between, which was included in his 13 rules for the sport. As the sport grew, more time was added and each half became 20 minutes in 1905. A change was made in 1951 when college basketball and the NBA changed the format to four 10-minute quarters ― similar to what's played in women's college basketball. The NBA has since kept the format and made each quarter 12 minutes, resulting in a 48-minute game. The NCAA changed their format to two halves in 1954, three years after the change. College coaches favored the change because they worried that a game could be stalled by one team holding the ball because of the lack of a shot clock. Legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp did argue in favor of following the NBA's four 12-minute quarters in 1955 but to no avail. Rupp argued that the change could provide fans with a "real competitive game" rather than a "free throw fest." Will men's college basketball switch over to quarters? A move from the two-half system to four quarters to follow women's college basketball, the NBA, the WNBA and FIBA was thought to be coming to men's basketball after the NCAA saw how the experiment worked for the women's side. Yet the change never arrived. ESPN's Jay Bilas argued for the four-quarter format to be introduced to men's college basketball in 2022. "Four quarters instead of two halves: Men's college basketball is the only visible form of the game in the world that does not have quarters. It is not a question of remaining unique. Quarters provide more clock plays and allow team fouls to be reset after the first and third quarters. Moving to quarters will reduce the number of free throws on common fouls and will eliminate the one-and-one. "A team will reach the bonus upon the fifth foul of a quarter, and two shots will be awarded upon every common foul thereafter. Some argue that the one-and-one is necessary, but I differ. The argument is that a player must 'earn' the second foul shot by making the first. That second shot was earned ... by getting fouled. Remember, the foul limited the offensive team's ability to get two or three points on the possession. This rule change, in my view, is necessary." Ken Pomeroy ― the creator of the KenPom rankings used in college basketball ― has also argued in favor of a four-quarter format. Every other form of basketball has quarters. So we'll get there someday. 2050? — Ken Pomeroy (@kenpomeroy) March 21, 2021 How does four quarters vs two halves change the game? A few differences between men's and women's college basketball are readily noticeable. One is how team fouls reset at the end of a half on the men's side and after a quarter on the women's side. The quarter breaks serve as a "media timeout" on the women's side, but the men's side has four media timeouts a half, which are spread out over four minutes of game action, usually at a stoppage of play. In women's college basketball, there were seven total media stoppages outside of team timeouts: four media timeouts midway through a quarter, the end of the first and third quarters, and at halftime. On the men's side, eight total media timeouts spread out over four minutes in halves and two halftimes, totaling 10 stoppages, once again outside the team timeouts.
New York Times
28-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
NCAA committee proposes charging timeout if player goes down with injury after ball spotted
The NCAA football rules committee's latest idea to stop the trend of faking injuries will be to charge a timeout in certain situations. As part of the 2025 rules proposals revealed Friday, a team would be charged an injury timeout if a player goes down due to injury after the ball is spotted for the next play. If a team is out of timeouts, it will be a five-yard penalty for delay of game. All proposals from the football rules committee must be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on April 16. Advertisement It's a less dramatic proposal than the one from the American Football Coaches Association, which asked that any player who goes down for injury be required to sit out the rest of the drive, but the hope is the idea revealed Friday will curtail most incidents. Faking injury has been used as a tactic to slow down an offense's momentum and tempo. The committee said the period after the ball is spotted is when the most egregious violations have occurred. 'We looked at a lot of video on these and saw many are occurring not at the end of the play, but after the play,' NCAA coordinator of officials Steve Shaw said. 'So we think this will hit and take the incentive for a player to feign an injury after a play is over. We'll monitor and see how it goes.' The topic of faking injuries has been discussed by the committee as high-profile situations have come up in recent years, even leading game broadcast announcers to question the legitimacy of supposed injuries during games. Schools have been allowed to request postgame video reviews of teams. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey sent a scathing memo to his schools in the fall over the topic, telling them to just play football. Another reason the committee opted against the coaches' proposal to sit a player for a drive is that they didn't want a player who is actually injured to try to play through that injury. Several other proposals revealed Friday are direct results of incidents in games this past season. If a defense goes through a play in the final two minutes with 12 players, it will be a five-yard penalty, and the offense will have the option to reset the game clock. This is a result of Oregon using 12 players on the second-to-last play against Ohio State in October, where four seconds ran off. If the 12th player is attempting to leave the field, it will just be a five-yard penalty. This would codify the interpretation added after the game last fall. Advertisement Another proposal would give teams just one timeout for the third overtime and beyond. This comes after the Georgia-Georgia Tech game went eight overtimes and saw three timeouts called in the final five two-play overtime periods. Two bowl games also went at least five overtimes. Kick return teams using the 'T' arm signal would also result in a dead ball call, per another proposal. This came up in the Citrus Bowl when South Carolina ran a kick return trick play against Illinois after doing the T signal, which informally signals letting the kickoff go through the end zone. When Illinois coach Bret Bielema checked on an injured Illini player a few plays later, he gave a T signal to South Carolina's bench, causing Bielema and Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer to yell at each other. Among the other proposals, officials would announce that replays were 'upheld' or 'overturned,' removing the calls of 'confirmed' and 'stands.' Helmet communication used in the Football Bowl Subdivision last year would be allowed at the Football Championship Subdivision level. There were no new proposals around targeting, coach challenges or substitutions, but all will get more attention. On targeting, the penalty and stoppage often draw the ire of fans for perceived inconsistency in the calls, but Shaw said there were 0.14 targeting penalties enforced per game this season, the lowest since the rule went into place. Big Ten vice president of football operations and rules committee co-chair A.J. Edds said the rules committee has a targeting recommendation that will go to the conference commissioners for feedback, rather than the NCAA membership of schools, and the committee could react depending on how that goes. He didn't reveal what that recommendation is, but Shaw emphasized there is no backing away from the definition of targeting. Advertisement The idea of moving to a coach challenge replay format like the NFL was discussed again but still doesn't have enough support. Edds said the committee will monitor and collect replay information to help illustrate and answer why a coach challenge model could be beneficial, and it'll be discussed again next year. Coaches have generally been against such a move. Substitutions grabbed the attention of fans this past season as defenses would sometimes sub slowly if given the opportunity following an offensive sub. The rule allows the defense to sub if the offense does. Shaw said officials will need to make sure it's handled correctly and not allow defensive subs to be too slow on purpose, but no formal rule change was needed. 'If done properly, we're very comfortable in our game and when the offense substitutes, the defense can match up,' Shaw said. 'If the offense substitutes late, they put themselves at risk for a delay of game, but if the defense doesn't act in an expeditious manner and players begin to lollygag, we're going to release the center judge and they put themselves in a situation where they could have 12 on the field. Coaches may try different things, but we have to stay with our process to ensure it's fair for both the offense and defense.'
