{"id":100883,"date":"2025-06-15T19:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100883\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:15:16","slug":"ncaa-implements-coachs-challenge-in-mens-college-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100883\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA implements coach’s challenge in men’s college basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Duke, Auburn, Houston players talk NCAA age limit before Final Four<\/p>\n

Men’s Final Four players weigh in on if college basketball should have an age limit<\/p>\n

If there were a defining image of the 2024-25 men\u2019s college basketball<\/a> season, it wasn\u2019t a buzzer-beater, a stunning upset or even the Final Four itself, when Florida completed a frantic comeback to defeat Houston<\/a> in an instant classic of an NCAA championship game.<\/p>\n

It was officials gathering around a monitor to review a call at a late stage in the game.<\/p>\n

Two months after the season ended, the powers that be in the sport are looking to remedy the issue.<\/p>\n

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The NCAA\u2019s playing rules oversight panel approved several changes on June 10 that will aim to \u201chelp enhance the flow of the game,\u201d the organization announced Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most notable among them is the introduction of a coach\u2019s challenge, which can be used at any point during a game to review out-of-bounds calls, basket interference and goaltending, and whether a secondary defender was in the restricted arc area underneath the basket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teams must have a timeout in order to use a challenge. If the challenge is successful, the team will be permitted one additional video review request for the rest of the game, including overtime. If the contested call isn\u2019t overturned, a team can\u2019t bring forth a challenge for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

The NBA has employed a similar challenge system since 2019.<\/p>\n

Referee-initiated video reviews on out-of-bounds calls in the final minutes of games were a constant source of frustration for fans in recent years, with the deliberations regularly interrupting close, exciting games and extending the game well beyond its allotted broadcast window.<\/p>\n

Even with the coach\u2019s challenge, officials can still decide to turn to instant replay for timing mistakes, scoring errors, shot-clock violations, flagrant fouls and whether a shot is a 2-pointer or a 3-pointer, among other things. They can also initiate reviews for restricted-arc plays and goaltending\/basket interference in the final two minutes of a game and overtime.<\/p>\n

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The advent of the coach\u2019s challenge was one of several measures that was approved Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The continuous motion rule has been tweaked so that a player driving with the ball who has absorbed contact can complete their step and attempt a field goal, another step that brings the college rules closer to their NBA counterparts. Players are currently only awarded free throws if they\u2019re fouled while shooting.<\/p>\n

Under new rules, officials will also have the option to call a Flagrant 1 foul if a player has been contacted in the groin. Previously, they could only rule it a common foul or a Flagrant 2 foul, the latter of which results in an ejection.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest change is one the NCAA ultimately didn\u2019t implement.<\/p>\n

In its release, the organization noted that the NCAA men\u2019s basketball committee had conversations and \u201cpositive momentum\u201d to move men\u2019s games from halves to quarters. While there are logistical challenges \u2014 namely, how media timeouts would be structured during a game \u2014 the committee has recommended that Division I conferences form a joint working group to offer feedback on the potential halves-to-quarters move.<\/p>\n

Halves are largely a relic of the men\u2019s college game, as women\u2019s college basketball, the NBA and international basketball all use quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke, Auburn, Houston players talk NCAA age limit before Final Four Men’s Final Four players weigh in on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,325,420,292,318,354,70,85,6,231,772,1544,62,67,53,61,81,65,66,83,64,63,82,1928],"class_list":{"0":"post-100883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-mens","15":"tag-mens-college-basketball","16":"tag-national","17":"tag-national-sports","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-ncaa","20":"tag-ncaa-basketball","21":"tag-ncaab","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-now","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-neutral","27":"tag-point","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-news","30":"tag-the","31":"tag-to","32":"tag-to-the-point","33":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114688984616758209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100883","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=100883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}