The last two minutes of university basketball games take 20 minutes of the actual time to finish them. At least this is hope.
On Tuesday, which is expected to improve the flow of men’s basketball for men, starting from the 2025-26 season. The most prominent of these changes is to get rid of restart reviews on external calls or goals in the last minutes of games.
Instead, coaches will now have the ability to challenge calls outside the borders, overlap, or basket intervention in the last minutes. Both coaches will receive one challenge that will get them to face an unsuccessful challenge.
In the past, coaches had the ability to request a review of any external call in the last minute of games. Many complained that this led to training playing the system for an additional deadline, while the officials reviewed a call that seemed clearly correct when making it in the actual time. This also led to major disturbances in the flow of the game and the competitions that could have been played within two hours, taking 15-20 minutes to conclude.
Other focus areas when it comes to improving the flow of the game in 2025-26 will be for officials to tackle the game delay tactics, reduce time to monitor the review, improve the efficiency of the game and reduce physical.
As far as you may follow the men’s game, you offer a woman’s game and move from half to quarters, it does not happen … so far.
“When considering the decisions last month, the Men’s Basketball Committee at NCAA held talks on ways to continue this trend in the coming years, which includes a positive momentum to transfer the men’s game from half to quarters,” the NCAA version stated. “The committee realizes that there are obstacles to implement the quarter -coordination of the game, including the structure of the media to accommodate the commercial stock.”
Other prominent changes announced on Tuesday include:
- Officials will have the option to summon a luxurious mistake 1 when the player is contacted to the thigh. It results from an honorary mistake 1 free throws for the comfortable team and possession of the ball. In the past, officials have not been able to call a common mistake or consider it a fatal mistake 2, as the player receives an expulsion, and the insulting team is receiving two free throws and possession of the ball.
- If the player uses the edge to gain an advantage, this will be a violation of the interference in the basket.
- If one of the hours of the shot becomes unimportant for operation, the shot hour will remain in the other basket. Previously, both hours will be turned off until both of them are turned on.
