At this point just shut down the NIT. Either you make it to the NCAA Tourney or you go home with no postseason.
NIT experimental changes
- Thread starter Cyclonepride
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He (or she) didn't slam the NBA in the post you quoted. He was just stating that he likes having diversity in college ball, it's part of what makes it interesting for its fans. It's professional basketball isn't known for stylistic diversity, and that's largely because the rules make a lot of college schemes impractical.
Personally, I don't see the need for change. Why make college basketball more like a minor league? From a business perspective, it's wise to hold on to your niche if you can't directly beat your competition. College basketball is all about tradition, and March cinderellas that break the mold. The NBA rules were crafted with one purpose: let the superstars dominate. The blue bloods that gather teams of future pros will only get more powerful because under pro rules you end up with more spacing, isolations and room to slash, and with spacing the highest rated players can dominate. Abdel Nader is an example of player who's game is more suited for the pros. The NBA is a player's league, college is a team's league. It's okay to have your own preference, but if you're a current college basketball fan, there's a good chance you prefer the latter. And if you like upsets in March, you probably don't want to see rules that kill style diversity and hurt less athletic teams.
The NBA, FIBA, and college basketball are entirely different things. And that's OK. The NIT is also a historic, prestigious tournament, and shouldn't be the NCAA rules committee's whipping boy.
I watch a fair amount of WBB also, I personally haven't seen the advantage of going to quarters. Very seldom does a team get into free throws unless they get fouled on a shot. It works against finesse teams IMO. Like some one else said it just gives you 2 more chances a game to watch the clock run down and take a bad shot (ok that sort of specific to ISU WBB this yr.) I would just as soon they went back to halves. I'm not sure but do they get to sell more ads by switching to qtrs.? I've never really paid attention to the final count.
No. Two fewer breaks.
MBB: 16-12-8-4, 16-12-8-4, plus one team TO
WBB: 5-Qtr-5, 5-Qtr-5, plus one team TO
I'm curious how many of these experimental rules changes have made it into or will make it into the standard rules in games. I seem to rememer them doing this before, but I don't recall the changes, nor do I know if they became permanent rules in the NCAA.
The year before they went away with 35 second shot clock they did 30 sec in the NIT.
Right. I think one of the articles said the next big rules meeting thing isn't until Spring '19, so it would likely be one more year before these would/could be adopted. Probably would see them played with or tinkered with again in the NIT next year.
Edit:
To speed the game up, fouls reset at the end of each quarter so you don't see teams getting in the bonus shooting FT's for 15 minutes each half. I get it but I'm just not a fan.
Time to introduce the 25 point hoop?
For the love of God...just no.
Best change will be going to quarters. Games flow much better. Fewer stoppages for foul shots. Far easier on the eyes. I know most here disagree, but college MBB, not WBB, is the only game played in halves. High school, WBB and pros are all quarters. The college game is way too long due to timeouts and foul shooting.
Somewhere, a bunch of Iowa fans just about that and started patting themselves on the back for how awesome they are.
I would like to see them experiment with taking this ball out at half court after time out late in the game - like NBA and WBB.
