The NCAA is experimenting with a new set of rules for this tourney. Basically, breaking up the games into 4 separate fouling segments. Each team will go into the double bonus after 5 fouls.
This will probably result in increased scoring. If you noticed, all the games opened at a number and are now 4 to 5 points higher for the over/unders.
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The biggest change to take effect during the NIT is resetting team fouls to zero at the end of 10-minute segments during each half, the NCAA said in a statement announcing several experimental rule changes.
?The committee believes resetting the team fouls to zero at the 9:59 mark of each half may have the same effect as resetting the team fouls to zero at the end of each quarter, while at the same time allowing for men?s college basketball to retain the unique format of two 20-minute halves,? the NCAA statement said.
In these 31 NIT games, after a team commits its fifth personal or technical foul in each 10-minute segment (and all fouls after that), the other team will shoot two free throws -- essentially dividing the game into four quarters when it comes to how team fouls are counted, but not changing how the game itself is is timed.
Existing standard rules call for a team to shoot ?1-and-1? free throws after its opponent commits seven team fouls in a half and and two free throws starting when a team commits 10 team fouls in a half.
The experimental rules will eliminate ?1-and-1? free throws.
This will probably result in increased scoring. If you noticed, all the games opened at a number and are now 4 to 5 points higher for the over/unders.
LTD
The biggest change to take effect during the NIT is resetting team fouls to zero at the end of 10-minute segments during each half, the NCAA said in a statement announcing several experimental rule changes.
?The committee believes resetting the team fouls to zero at the 9:59 mark of each half may have the same effect as resetting the team fouls to zero at the end of each quarter, while at the same time allowing for men?s college basketball to retain the unique format of two 20-minute halves,? the NCAA statement said.
In these 31 NIT games, after a team commits its fifth personal or technical foul in each 10-minute segment (and all fouls after that), the other team will shoot two free throws -- essentially dividing the game into four quarters when it comes to how team fouls are counted, but not changing how the game itself is is timed.
Existing standard rules call for a team to shoot ?1-and-1? free throws after its opponent commits seven team fouls in a half and and two free throws starting when a team commits 10 team fouls in a half.
The experimental rules will eliminate ?1-and-1? free throws.
