Monson: 40 percent of the Jazz’s shots were 3-pointers last season. The NBA should make those shots more difficult in order to save the mid-range game.

College basketball plans to move its 3-point line back. The NBA should do likewise.

But neither will — or would — do it to the extreme it should, the distance to which basketball would most benefit.

The guardians of the college game — an outfit known as the Playing Rules Oversight Panel — are moving the line from 20 feet, 9 inches to the international distance of 22 feet, 1 and three-quarters inches, starting this next season.

First reaction: Who the hell came up with that number? What makes 22 feet, 1 and three-quarters inches sacrosanct?