University basketball by considering the challenge of the coach, if it is necessary to use neighborhoods for men

The challenges of the coach could arrive at university basketball next season.

Friday, the NCAA male basketball rules committee proposed to concede to coaches a challenge per game to examine “off-limits, interference / goalkeeper of the basket and if a secondary defender was in the arch of the restricted zone”. The coaches should have a time dead to ask for a challenge, and if a challenge succeeds, the coaches would see another for the rest of the game, including overtime. But if a challenge fails, the coach would lose the ability to challenge for the rest of the game.

This proposal is one of the many recommendations that the NCAA Game Rules Monitoring Committee will examine on June 10 for use during the 2025-26 season.

The committee recommended creating a working group to explore a long -term change from halves to neighborhoods. He also proposed changes in continuation rules and if managers can examine interference / goalkeeper calls in the last two minutes of the games.

Karl Hicks, chairman of the Rules Committee and associate commissioner of the American Athletic Conference for basketball, said in a statement that the Committee focused on improving the ends of the games, which note an increased number of judgments for official journals. Under the proposal, officials would no longer re -examine off -limits unless a coach disputes the decision.

“The coach’s challenges were considered the most effective way to achieve this goal,” said Hicks.

Hicks said the Committee found that a substantial number of criticisms at the NCAA conference and tournament took place. In the end, after studying the “other basketball leagues in the world”, the Committee agreed that the challenge system of the NBA coach, adopted for the first time in 2019, was best suited to the university game.

Beyond the potential challenge of the coach, the most remarkable recommendation of the Committee is the more in-depth exploration of male university basketball matches in the neighborhoods, which is the NBA standard, women’s university basketball and many other world basketball leagues.

The Committee said there was “a positive momentum” to make such a change, but also cited obstacles, including “the structuring of media waiting times to accommodate commercial stocks”. For this reason, the committee proposed to create a working group to study the problem and the report at that time next year.

With regard to continuation, the Committee recommended that a player “who finishes his dribbling is heading for the basket and absorbs the defense contact, be authorized to pivot or finish the step on which the player is and to finish the goal attempt on the field.” Currently, male college players are only credited with shots made when they are at fault by shooting the ball. Such a change would follow more closely with the NBA continuation rules.

“Our players are sophisticated, and the committee estimated that we are penalizing offensive players who have made very good movements,” said Hicks. “We want to put our game online by other basketball levels. When I say other levels, this includes the secondary level. Their rule is more liberal than our college rules when it comes to shooting the ball. I hope that we will not see as many civil servants renouncing baskets who will now be considered to be part of the blow.”

Another smaller recommendation is the possibility for officials to call flagrant faults 1 when a player comes into contact with the groin of another player. Currently, officials must call either a common fault or a flagrant 2, which ejects a player, in such scenarios.

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