{"id":100301,"date":"2025-06-15T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100301\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:32:09","slug":"bruce-pearl-wants-mens-college-basketball-to-switch-to-quarters-over-halves-just-like-everybody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100301\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Pearl wants men’s college basketball to switch to quarters over halves: ‘Just like everybody else’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the offseason for college basketball, but that doesn\u2019t mean there hasn\u2019t been any controversy. In particular, there\u2019s been a growing debate surrounding playing two halves or four quarters. Now Auburn Tigers<\/a> head coach Bruce Pearl<\/a> has joined the conversation, sharing his thoughts. <\/p>\n

While being interviewed by Andy Katz on The Sideline, Pearl shared that he prefers quarters over halves. After all, that\u2019s how the game is played at every other level. <\/p>\n

\u201cQuarters,\u201d Bruce Pearl said<\/a>. \u201cJust like everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearl didn\u2019t expand on his reasoning beyond that. Part of that might have been because Andy Katz asked him for a rapid-fire answer, though. Still, to his point, basketball is played in a four-quarter format in the NBA, in high school, and even in women\u2019s college basketball. Women\u2019s basketball made the switch back in the 2015-16 season. So, men playing two halves does remain an odd outlier. <\/p>\n

This growing concern over halves and quarters stems from a recent NCAA press release. In it, the NCAA was announcing some changes to help with the flow of the game. Among those changes<\/a> was the move to\u00a0allow coaches to challenge and review out-of-bounds calls and goaltending or basket interference. However, deeper inside that press release was an interesting note about the halves and quarters format. <\/p>\n

The NCAA has since announced that there\u2019s been \u201cpositive momentum\u201d<\/a> toward the switch. Bruce Pearl, seemingly, is a good example of that momentum now. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel also recommended that Division I conferences actually develop a working group to provide further feedback on the option. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn considering the decisions last month, the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Committee had conversations about ways to continue this direction in the upcoming years, which includes positive momentum for\u00a0moving the men\u2019s game from halves to quarters,\u201d the NCAA\u2019s press release read. \u201cThe committee realizes there are hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including the structuring of media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory.\u00a0The committee recommended NCAA Division I conferences create a joint working group to provide feedback on the potential change from halves to quarters.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many coaches, this would be a massive change. In particular, they\u2019d have to adjust to a new system as it relates to clock management. For some, that may be more difficult than others. Still, if Bruce Pearl, who has been in college coaching since 1982 and has been a head coach since 1992, wants the change, then he is probably confident that he can adjust just fine. After a trip to the Final Four, of course, it\u2019s easy to be confident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the offseason for college basketball, but that doesn\u2019t mean there hasn\u2019t been any controversy. In particular, there\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,1058],"class_list":{"0":"post-100301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bruce-pearl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114687400291849191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}