NJDuck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted Wednesday at 04:21 PM Buried deep inside a Tuesday press release announcing major changes to “help enhance the flow of the game” in men’s college basketball was a hint at an even more significant change to the game. Last month, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee proposed the creation of a joint working group to gather feedback for potentially moving from halves to quarters. Since then, the NCAA revealed there’s been “positive momentum” toward the move to quarters, and the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel further recommended Division I conferences actually develop a working group to provide further feedback on the option. Men’s college basketball is the only division of the sport that utilizes halves as opposed to quarters. Women’s college basketball has utilized quarters since the 2015-16 season. NCAA hints at 'positive momentum' towards men's basketball moving to quarters from halves - On3 WWW.ON3.COM The NCAA revealed there's been "positive momentum" toward moving men's college basketball from halves to quarters like the women's game. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porter No. 2 Share Posted Wednesday at 04:50 PM I don't really care what they play. Quarters is more to provide advertising than anything else so we will probably see it. We'll probably also see more foul shots with the 5 foul mark starting them. I don't think it really means anything other than a time out for the coaches and players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 3 Share Posted Wednesday at 05:12 PM “The committee realizes there are hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including the structuring of media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory. With all the media timeouts, it was hard to get a real sense of momentum and flow with the 20 minute halves, be interesting to see how 10 minute quarters are dissected to accommodate broadcasts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Marsh No. 4 Share Posted Wednesday at 05:33 PM This one is a weird one... Because frankly it doesn't matter if NCAA basketball moves to quarters. Everyone else uses quarters and they create natural breaks in the games. It is also a guaranteed commercial break for broadcasting companies which is what they want. It is the same reason why the NCAA adopted the 2 minute timeout in football. So going to quarters really wouldn't change the game. But it just feels kinda wrong. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan2785 No. 5 Share Posted Wednesday at 07:48 PM It makes no sense to have literally every other level of basketball using quarters while college uses halves. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porter No. 6 Share Posted Thursday at 11:54 PM On 6/11/2025 at 3:48 PM, spartan2785 said: It makes no sense to have literally every other level of basketball using quarters while college uses halves. nor does continuing with halve defy logic, only economics. I'm fine either way and will continue watching. Hardly matters in regard to the score. My temperature has not risen since the subject came up. I checked. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevada Dawg No. 7 Share Posted yesterday at 05:18 AM Halves vs. Quarters? If anyone cares, I don't care one way or he other. It does seem though that the game flow would be really choppy introjecting another break for the Quarter at the 10 minute mark with breaks already coming at the 8:00 and 12:00 points in a half. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandaian No. 8 Share Posted yesterday at 04:12 PM I'm sorry, lame excuse, "The committee realizes there are hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including the structuring of media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory." Makes zero sense, since the college women use quarters and the WNBA and NBA use quarters. Quarters are way better IMO, simply because of fouls. 20-minute halves can bog down the game because of the amount of FTs. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porter No. 9 Share Posted yesterday at 04:56 PM On 6/13/2025 at 12:12 PM, Tandaian said: I'm sorry, lame excuse, "The committee realizes there are hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including the structuring of media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory." Makes zero sense, since the college women use quarters and the WNBA and NBA use quarters. Quarters are way better IMO, simply because of fouls. 20-minute halves can bog down the game because of the amount of FTs. Probably just waiting to line up the sales staff 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porter No. 10 Share Posted yesterday at 05:09 PM Not sure how much difference it would make to the number of foul shots but I doubt it would make a noticeable difference since shooting fouls are still two shots and a lot of whistles are blown for those, whenever they are called. It could have an impact at the end of the game with teams more often having to commit more intentional unintentional fouls to get a shot at make the ending closer or grabbing the lead. I never really paid much attention to the women's game in this regard and the NBA has their own version of when foul shots are attempted in the fourth quarter. The NBA doing it is no reason to follow as I don't want the college game looking like what they play. The women have four q''s because we know "they don't have the stamina" to play 20 minute halves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
