New 3 point line in 2008

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:47 pm

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - College basketball players might want to start working on longer shots.

Two decades after adding the 3-point line, the NCAA men's basketball rules committee approved a measure Thursday that will move the line back one foot — from 19 feet, 9 inches to 20 feet, 9 inches. If approved by the playing rules oversight committee on May 25, it would mark the first major change to 3-pointers since their adoption.

The change would not take place until November 2008.

The move comes after years of debate about extending the line. Rules committee chairman Larry Keating said two proposals were considered. The other would have moved the line to 20 feet, 6 inches, the same distance as international 3-pointers. Both are shorter than the NBA line, which ranges from 23 feet, 9 inches at the top of the key to 22 feet at its nearest point in the baseline corners.

"We made it a point to come up with a distance that was correct for us and that didn't necessarily mimic the international line," Keating said.

The women's basketball rules committee did not adopt the change and will keep the 3-point line at 19 feet, 9 inches.

Mook · Post by **Mook** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:34 pm

'Bout time.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:38 pm

i've read about this rumoured for some time. i can hit the NCAA 3.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:22 pm

That's going to be one fucked up looking court with a women's 3 at 19'9" and a men's 3 at 20'9".

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:23 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:That's going to be one fucked up looking court with a women's 3 at 19'9" and a men's 3 at 20'9".

Imagine if there was a venue where an NBA team also played.

OUMO · Post by **OUMO** » Fri May 04, 2007 4:23 pm

MuchoBulls wrote:
IndyFrisco wrote:That's going to be one fucked up looking court with a women's 3 at 19'9" and a men's 3 at 20'9".
Imagine if there was a venue where an NBA team also played.

Just what I was thinking, hell let's just throw some volleyball lines on there too.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri May 04, 2007 6:34 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:That's going to be one fucked up looking court with a women's 3 at 19'9" and a men's 3 at 20'9".

yer court is already fucked up looking enough. can't you just let the horns have the bigger state of TEXAS at midcourt? not to mention the weird parquet shizz you got going on.