NCAA women’s rules committee proposes coach’s challenge to initiate video review on variety of plays

INDIANAPOLIS AP The NCAA Women s Basketball Rules Committee proposed that a coach s challenge be required to initiate a video review of out-of-bounds calls and three other types of plays The committee met in Indianapolis this week and voted to recommend the change for the - season Proposals must be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel which is scheduled to meet June Under the proposal plays that could be challenged at any point during the championship include out-of-bounds calls backcourt violations whether a change in gang possession occurred before the ruling of a foul where free throws would be involved and whether a foul was assessed to the correct participant Personnel could not initiate reviews on these calls with the exception of whether a foul was assessed to the correct participant Teams would not be required to have a timeout to make a video review challenge in NCAA women s basketball competition However a failed challenge would product in an administrative technical foul for an excessive timeout The committee was concerned with pace of play and the number of reviews occurring at the end of games explained Nicki Collen rules committee chair and coach at Baylor This was also an experimental rule in this year s WBIT By removing the option for bureaucrats to review called out-of-bounds violations and allowing coaches to challenge the call you increase flow at the end of games while still allowing for the opportunity to get the call right The committee also proposed among other things setting the shot clock to seconds when following a dead ball the offense is awarded the ball in its front court eliminating the rule that jerseys need to be tucked in a association technical foul for using excessive timeouts or playing with six players when the ball becomes live and suspending the athlete and head coach for one tournament if the participant competes in a challenge that the sportsman should have missed due to a suspension Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top throughout the season Sign up here AP women s college basketball https apnews com hub ap-top- -womens-college-basketball-poll and https apnews com hub womens-college-basketball Source