NCAA adopts college basketball rule changes for 2015-16 season

Getty ImagesThe NCAA announced important rule changes for the 2015-16 on Monday.

Men’s basketball will go from 35 to 30 seconds for the shot clock, a three-foot restricted-area arc is now four feet and five timeouts per team per game has been changed to four (with no more than three timeouts carrying over to the second half from the first).

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel, which is chaired by Belmont head coach Rick Byrd, also decided the 10-second backcourt clock will not reset when a timeout is called and they eliminated a coaches’ ability to call live-ball timeouts.

The shot clock moving to 30 seconds is obviously the biggest change to the game for fans and it’s meant to give each…