Men’s basketball teams will play with a quicker shot clock and fewer timeouts next season under rules that were approved on Monday.
It’s the first time the shot clock has been trimmed since the 1993-94 season, when it went from 45 seconds to 35. Now it goes from 35 seconds to 30. Teams also will have one fewer second-half timeout, and if either team calls a timeout within 30 seconds of a media timeout, it would count as the scheduled break.
On Monday, the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel officially approved both recommendations from the basketball rules committee.