NCAA May Change Goaltending Rule

An NCAA committee has proposed a change in the goaltending rule, which will not allow players to touch a ball that has hit the backboard and is above the rim, regardless if the ball is heading up or down.  The current rule states that it is only goal tending if the ball is coming downward after hitting of the backboard.  Another rule was the idea of enforcing that home teams wear light colored uniforms and away teams wear dark colored uniforms, unless both teams agree to switch.  These are two of about 50 rules that the NCAA committee will consider.  The NCAA's playing rules oversight panel will look further into the rule changes next month.  The proposed change to widen the free-throw line was not taken into any consideration by the committee.

These are just a few of the minor rules that the committee thinks about every year that never really have a major impact on college basketball.  The goal tending rule shouldn't make that much of a difference and the jersey thing seems to be an unwritten rule already. The rule that the NCAA and NBA Commissioner David Stern need to think about is pushing back the age limit for when players can enter the draft.  In a perfect world, they'd push it back till after sophomore or junior year of college.