The official NCAA College Basketball Rulebook defines a timeout as a designated allocation of time provided to a team that causes stoppage in the game. The rules governing the number of timeouts and length of an individual timeout differ for a televised game from a non-televised game. Usage T...
Timing rules for NCAA football games have been gradually shifting to line up more with NFL rules in recent years, and now that shift takes another big step with the implementation of a two-minute warning. When two minutes remain in both the first half and the second half, the game takes ...
Free hits are also rewarded if a team commits third-party obstruction. Third-party obstruction is similar to a pick or screen in basketball and football — something that is illegal in field hockey. A player is not allowed to use their body to shield the ball from another player. Corners...
According to the NCAA basketball rules, the clock starts “when the ball is legally touched by or touches a player on the playing court.” After a team makes a field goal and the other team takes the ball out of bounds, the shot clock is reset and starts again when the ball is touche...
It was on the basketball court. Football, well, that was the polar opposite. If there was a steady presence on that team, though, it was at the tackle spot where 6-foot-7, 318-pound,Adam Goldberg, week in and week out, continued to do his job, making sure the signal-caller stayed...
Even in a physical game such as college football, there are rules against being too physical. Whether on offense or defense, players are not allowed to use their hands to hook, lock, clamp, grasp, or hold in an effort to restrain the opponent.
At first glance, it may seem that there are not any differences between college (NCAA) basketball and professional basketball (NBA). The court looks the same, both have hoops positioned at the same height, and the whole game generally seems identical....
All of this has a lot of non-UNC fans crying ‘foul’, saying that UNC is playing fast and loose with the rules in order to help their powerhouse basketball team. However, the truth is that players reclassify all of the time, and it’s actually no different than what hundreds of playe...
"The idea is to prevent a team from gaining an advantage by committing a foul to stop the clock," Rogers Redding, secretary-rules editor of the committee, said in an NCAA news release announcing the proposals. At the Music City Bowl in December, North Carolina was penalized with one second...
VII.II.FIBA Rules: Bonus Situation VIII.Wrapping Things Up: What Does Bonus Mean in College Basketball? What is a Basketball Bonus? A team is said to be in the bonus when they reach a certain team foul threshold within one period or half. This threshold, often called the bonus cap, can...