Ed DeChellis has been around college basketball long enough to recall when the 45-second shot clock was put in 30 years ago, largely to prevent teams such as North Carolina to run its vaunted Four Corners or Princeton to put opponents to sleep with its patience and precision.
The Navy coach doesn't know what to make of the latest changes, which were approved Monday by the NCAA playing rules oversight committee in an attempt to speed up — and open up — what had increasingly become a more plodding, less skilled version of NBA playoff games.
"We reduce the shot clock from 35 [seconds] to 30 to speed up the game.