What Needs to Change with College Basketball

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Foval21

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College basketball is great. I would watch it over pro any day of the week. Yet I believe that the game needs to be more free flowing and sped up. Many games anymore just seem slow as teams clog up the middle and utilize the 35 second clock to full advantage. If the 35 second clock is used to 30 seconds on average that is only 1 possession per team per minute or 40 possessions per game. This brings me to my first change which is a 24 or 25 second clock, I mean honestly the women's game has a shorter shot clock than men's that is sad. This will then cause a need to change the backcourt violation to 8 seconds. Both of these changes would constitute a sped up game and should also instigate a higher scoring influx. The next change would be to widen the lane. This will open up driving lanes because posts wouldn't be able to clog the lanes as easily because of the 3 second rule. Last of my changes would be to go to a 4 - 10 minute quarter system. This is more of a reason because watching on TV just bugs me with all the TV timeouts at least if it was 4 qtrs the breaks might seem more in the flow of the game.

Let me know if you like these changes or not or any that you think would make the game a little better.
 
I am in favor of a 30 second clock...split the difference with the NBA.
I am a fan of the NBA and I think 24 is fine for that level but in college they need more time to get into their diverse offenses.

Not a fan of quarters...just would add to the timeouts as coaches try to score on last play of 4 period vs 2.,which happens in the pros all the time.

Widening the lane would be fine,or do the international trapezoid lane.

I would endorse pushing the 3 point shot out to the NBA arc...make it a really tough shot and open up the middle for mid-range pullups.
 
I'm in favor of a shorter shot lock. I like a 30 sec one like JHHawk. Widening the lane would be fine, not sure about it creating driving lanes, though. There's a lot of zone played in college basketball.

The big thing that needs to be addressed is the horrid officiating.
 
The NCAA has the same problem as the NBA. The regular season means very little. When the 7th placed team in the Big East, Big Ten or ACC gets into the tournament; the regular season means very little. It really makes conference play very meaningless.

Look at Iowa's MAD campaign, all it is, is about Iowa becoming a middle of the pack Big Ten team and getting into the tournament.

College basketball used to be my favorite sport. However, I really don't get interested in college basketball until the second round of the tournament. I used to watch basketball religiously, but other than Iowa, I watch very few regular season games.

What makes college football great is that every game is important. The tournament starts from the first game of the season.

Ohio State & Purdue play twice this year. Unless you are a OSU or Purdue fan, the games are meaningless, regardless of the results, they both will make the tournament.

Why watch Duke play & root for them to lose. Regardless, all they have to be is a middle of the pack ACC team and they make the tournament.
 
College bball is awesome the way it is. That is the problem with our society, lets speed everything up. 35 seconds is fine. Woman have 30 seconds but no 10 second rule. Taking the clock down to 24 would make it more like the NBA and the NBA sucks. I don't want to see college ball turn into give me the ball and get out of the way, that is NBA. 35 seconds is good enough and gives the opportunity to run some offense, and whoever said that more teams are utilizing the full 35 seconds was just plain wrong. Most teams don't utilize until they need to run time at the end of a game or half, which is one strategy to winning.
 
30 Second Shot clock, I like.
Place an arc under the basket for charges, this may improve the officiating 1%, but it is better than it getting worse every year.
3-pt line moved back to the NBA line, so shooters will be shooters and other people will play where they belong.
The NCAA needs to work with the NBA much better on the underclassmen rule, if the NBA in the early 2000's, most of these kids need college. Make the rule a cross between the MLB and the NBA.

People think the regular season doesn't matter, but I beg to differ, at least for the most part, we can see top teams play top teams and get a measuring stick even with it being early in the season. The conference play makes or breaks you, teams know what you are going to do and it is difficult to win on the road in any conference. Just because there are teams that get to the magic total and they are in, is not a bad thing. The bubble war is really interesting, the regular season matters just as much as it does in any sport. It gives those teams a lot of chances to prove something and if they get in and people question what they did during the regular season, it gives them more incentive. I love the NCAA tournament, there is nothing like it and I wish football would adopt a playoff in some fashion. Today there is now way they are going to get rid of the bowls with all the money, but there has to be a way to use all four bowl sites and rotate the National Championship. Give me 16 teams and the top seed plays at home the first week and nuetral at the the four major sites, regionally, based on the higher seed and play on...use the BCS rankings to seed them. Sorry, I know this isn't a football thread...just something I would like to see geared more like basketball.

On the whole, the NCAA game needs to take the good things from the pro game and get them implemented. Like the 3-pt arc and the arc under the rim for charges.
 
HawkI101 said:
College bball is awesome the way it is. That is the problem with our society, lets speed everything up. 35 seconds is fine. Woman have 30 seconds but no 10 second rule. Taking the clock down to 24 would make it more like the NBA and the NBA sucks. I don't want to see college ball turn into give me the ball and get out of the way, that is NBA. 35 seconds is good enough and gives the opportunity to run some offense, and whoever said that more teams are utilizing the full 35 seconds was just plain wrong. Most teams don't utilize until they need to run time at the end of a game or half, which is one strategy to winning.
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I disagree with all of this. There is a ton of standing around in college basketball. The NBA runs much more sophisticated offenses than college, and they have to call one and run it, rather than walk up the court, watch the defenses' set up, and then start the offense. Very few college teams have a player who can attack and finish around the basket, which is why college is a three point game, and most of the action takes place behind the arc.
 
Iowafarmgirl said:
I disagree with all of this. There is a ton of standing around in college basketball. The NBA runs much more sophisticated offenses than college, and they have to call one and run it, rather than walk up the court, watch the defenses' set up, and then start the offense. Very few college teams have a player who can attack and finish around the basket, which is why college is a three point game, and most of the action takes place behind the arc.
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The NBA does not run more sophisticated offenses than college. It's not even close. Most NBA teams just run a couple plays with many possible variations within the play. Some college teams have nealry 100 plays, not to mention running offenses like the flex which are not designed for quick shots at all.
 
Iowafarmgirl said:
I disagree with all of this. There is a ton of standing around in college basketball. The NBA runs much more sophisticated offenses than college, and they have to call one and run it, rather than walk up the court, watch the defenses' set up, and then start the offense. Very few college teams have a player who can attack and finish around the basket, which is why college is a three point game, and most of the action takes place behind the arc.
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Yeah, one pass and take it one on one, travel and have it not called. I'll take college basketball over the NBA any day.
 
JHHawk said:
I am in favor of a 30 second clock...split the difference with the NBA.
I am a fan of the NBA and I think 24 is fine for that level but in college they need more time to get into their diverse offenses.

Not a fan of quarters...just would add to the timeouts as coaches try to score on last play of 4 period vs 2.,which happens in the pros all the time.

Widening the lane would be fine,or do the international trapezoid lane.

I would endorse pushing the 3 point shot out to the NBA arc...make it a really tough shot and open up the middle for mid-range pullups.
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I heard that they were getting rid of the trapezoid lane for international hoops. am i mistaken?
 
I'd like to the rule changes that open up the college game. My biggest complaint about the college game is how "congested" the game is. The players are too big and fast these days. The interior is always clogged with zone defenses and short defensive rotations. This makes post-play congested and sloppy with no room to operate. It also makes for very small driving lanes. It eliminates the mid-range game. And means lots of 3-pointers are attempted.

I'd like to see them move the 3-point line out and go with the trapezoid lane. I'd also consider making the court bigger to open up the game a little as far as transition play.
 
the officiating. it's been terrible for way too long. they keep running out the same clowns over and over and over again. I get that its a hard job, but just because something is hard doesn't mean that you have to suck at it.
 
Totally agree. They need younger, unbiased officials to replace some of these old, out-of-shape dinosaurs they keep running out there.
 
HawkeyeMike23 said:
The NBA does not run more sophisticated offenses than college. It's not even close. Most NBA teams just run a couple plays with many possible variations within the play. Some college teams have nealry 100 plays, not to mention running offenses like the flex which are not designed for quick shots at all.
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Are you kidding me? You think they dumb down the offenses for professional players? What an ******** statement. Next thing you are going to tell me that college teams have better assistants, scouts, and training staffs too.
 
Iowafarmgirl said:
Are you kidding me? You think they dumb down the offenses for professional players? What an ******** statement. Next thing you are going to tell me that college teams have better assistants, scouts, and training staffs too.
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What type of sophisticated offense do they run?? They set ball screens and try to get to the basket, if stopped then pass for a jumper = not sophisticated. Most college teams, as one poster stated, run 50 set plays plus one or two continuity offenses.

If anyone says that the NBA is better stratigically doesn't know basketball, I don't think I have ever heard that before. Much better skillfully but not stratigaclly.
 
HawkI101 said:
What type of sophisticated offense do they run?? They set ball screens and try to get to the basket, if stopped then pass for a jumper = not sophisticated. Most college teams, as one poster stated, run 50 set plays plus one or two continuity offenses.

If anyone says that the NBA is better stratigically doesn't know basketball, I don't think I have ever heard that before. Much better skillfully but not stratigaclly.
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I am absolutely amazed by your certainty in a subject while simultaniously showing absolutely no knowledge on the subject. You usually have to go to politics to see something like that.
 
The NBA has always the best bb minds,guys like Tex Winter,Johnny Bach ect,migrate from college because the NBA is pure bb,all the time. Skiles,Thibideaux,Doc,Phil Jackson,ect run offenses that are complex...but do need to set up shots in a tight time frame.

Again, 30 seconds is plenty of time,and forces more action,which is what is fans want...more entertainment packed into 40 minutes of play. In the NBA ,there is no hiding bad talent with slo-ball...thankfully.
 
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