OT: Women's college basketball games are now 4 10 minute quarters
Looks like they really want more TV Ads.... Hope they don't do this with men.
It’s official! NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approves playing four 10-minute quarters in women's basketball.
— NCAA Women's BKB (@NCAAWomensBKB) June 8, 2015There will actually be fewer media timeouts outside those between the quarters, because there will be only one during each quarter. Also, the team fouls will reset to zero at the end of each quarter, which should cut back on foul shots. The overall idea of the rules changes (which are outlined here) is to improve the flow of the game.
So are the women essentially guinea pigs for the men here?
There were also rules changes announced for the men, including shortening the shot clock from 35 to 30, which was already what the women were using.
So using this logic, if 4 - 10 minute quarters are better than 2 - 20 halves, then 8 - 5 minute periods must be even better. Only to be further improved by 16 - 2.5 minute....
I really hate this move.
Leave the game alone. It was fine. There's no need for this. The two halves makes it seem like it's a faster game even though it's really the same amount of game clock.
Dumb. Of course the women can't be like the men.
Am I the only one who finds woman's basketball in general a bit painful to watch? The game is played so far below the rim and is so slow it's like watching two really, really good 7th grade boys AAU teams go at it and bears almost no resemblance to the men's game at least to me.
If, in the forest, a game is divided into 4 quarters instead of 2 halves and nobody (except for WD) is around, does it make a sound?
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Yeah, it translates so poorly between men and women. Volleyball and soccer are fantastic to watch for men or women, but basketball is just hard on the eye unless the women are elite. I watch the occasional WNBA game and it's not terrible. But women's college basketball, outside of Uconn and the other usual suspects, is hard on the eyes at times.
Women's college volleyball is just awesome to watch as they are supremely athletic, crisp, precise and do play well above the net. That and softball are my favorite "mainstream" favorite women's sports by far.
Michigan's Abby Cole
100% agree. Volleyball & socceer, for example, look identical to me when played by men or woman. But woman's basketball is such a different game and candidly, not one I enjoy watching very much.
I would bet anything that if a game was played between the WNBA champions and the best 9th grade boys AAU team the boys would crush them. 9th grade boys can dunk and play above the rim and woman, even the best of the best of them, cannot.
Upvote for you cause I had forgotten I had even posed that question to the board. What's funny is before I clicked on the link I thought "did I post that?" but wasnt sure until I read it.
FYI - getting old kinda sucks.
I knew I had seen something similar here, but I didn't remember it was you who had posted it.
I did notice that you upgraded your argument from NCAA champion to WNBA champion. I'm expecting to see a post from you in three years arguing that a 9th grade boys AAU team (why always 9th grade, I wonder?) would crush the Olympic gold medal–winning women's team.
I haven't gone to that thread, but I can think back to when Greg Oden and Mike Conley Jr were in 9th grade. They played on an elite AAU team together and Oden was already crazy big and played well above the rim. Actually those teams had Oden, Conley Jr, and Eric Gordon. Not to mention Josh McRoberts and DaQuan Cook.
Then you think about the team that Kobe supposedly played on with these guys: Kobe, Vince Carter, Tim Thomas, Rip Hamilton, and Kevin Freeman.
Dwight Howard and Josh Smith played on an AAU team with Marcus Rush. Lebron James and Kendrick Perkins played on an AAU team together.
Anyways, I do believe that team with Greg, Conley, Gordon, and McRoberts could beat a womens national champion. Greg was so dominant in high school, it was impressive to watch. Greg and McRoberts would easily match up size wise and I believe Gordon was already a pretty good size in 9th grade.
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Given the fact that college has TV timeouts, this change does LITERALLY nothing other than create a single point in each half where the clock runs out. Since there's already a shot clock in CBB, that doesn't really change anything.
If this lessens TV timeouts or timeouts in general, then fine.
Just what we needed...two more halftimes!
is to make the women's game more closely align with international rules. The women have actually been at the forefront of rules changes for years now, its been the men that have been going at a snails pace.
Personally I don't think its a great move.