DePaulia · Apr 24, 2016
How we would improve college basketball
Game changer
The DePaulia's basketball experts
propose changes to the game.
College basketball is stuck in the past.
It was only until this season that men’s basketball was somehow still using 35 seconds for the shot clock. Even then, 30 seconds is still too slow.
It’s time the NCAA catches up with the rest of basketball past the high school level — drop the shot clock to 24 and turn two halves into four 10-minute quarters.
“Nobody is playing with a shot clock longer than 30,” said analytics guru Ken Pomeroy, who has his advanced college basketball website KenPom. “Obviously, FIBA (International Basketball Federation) uses 24 now. Of course, the NBA has used 24 forever.