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2015 Postseason NIT will compete using experimental rules, including a 30-second shot clock and a four-foot restricted-area arc. The rules will be in effect for all 31 games of the tournament.

interesting. Hopefully none of our teams will be part of this test

what is going to stink is if these new rules are really good and immediately noticeable, it will make then watching the NCAA tourney with the old rules seem boring if you know what I mean.

I think also one rule that had been mentioned was timeouts. Where if a team say calls a timeout within 30 seconds of a tv timeout, that's the TV timeout. That should help the pace of play a lot.

Yes please 30 second shot clock.

stever20 wrote:

I think also one rule that had been mentioned was timeouts. Where if a team say calls a timeout within 30 seconds of a tv timeout, that's the TV timeout. That should help the pace of play a lot.

Any team in the 2nd half that calls the first 30 second timeout of that half is moved to a full timeout.

I would like to see the shot clock abolished except for the last 5 minutes of the second half. Great coaches in the past were able to win games and national championships with less than superior players by controlling the pace of the game in this way. Of course there are some who expect the college game to be the NBA2. I would prefer a more structured, disciplined and deliberate game. However I know the TV networks would not go along with it.

I think it should be against the rules to wear the ugly sweater Buzz wore tonight against Georgia Tech.

robinreed wrote:I would like to see the shot clock abolished except for the last 5 minutes of the second half. Great coaches in the past were able to win games and national championships with less than superior players by controlling the pace of the game in this way. Of course there are some who expect the college game to be the NBA2. I would prefer a more structured, disciplined and deliberate game. However I know the TV networks would not go along with it.

You're anti-shot clock? You prefer a team hold the ball for 5 full minutes featuring 57 passes then a lay up? Yeah, exciting basketball! hahaha I can't wait for those 24-22 thrillers! Maybe we can do away with that pesky 3 point line too while we're at it!

Bring shot clock down to 30 seconds (at least) and take away some timeouts. Right now there are a possible 14 timeouts (5 each coach and 4 media timeouts) each half. And that is before video reviews. Maybe they could institute a challenge system similar to the NFL. So 4 timeouts with 2 of those being challenge capable. I hate how every close game now takes an extra 20 minutes because we have to review every single play (shot clock off a 1/10th of a second etc.) Just let the refs call the game.

DudeAnon wrote:Bring shot clock down to 30 seconds (at least) and take away some timeouts. Right now there are a possible 14 timeouts (5 each coach and 4 media timeouts) each half. And that is before video reviews. Maybe they could institute a challenge system similar to the NFL. So 4 timeouts with 2 of those being challenge capable. I hate how every close game now takes an extra 20 minutes because we have to review every single play (shot clock off a 1/10th of a second etc.) Just let the refs call the game.

I think the rule that they're going to be testing where if a timeout is called within 30 seconds of a media timeout it becomes the media timeout is huge. That's going to help out a lot. Just don't see them getting rid of a coaches timeout.