NCAA extends 3 point line for 08-09 year

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After years of study and consideration, the Men's Basketball Rules Committee voted to recommend extending the three-point line to 20 feet, 9 inches starting with the 2008-09 season.

Here we go!

Good ideal.

Long, long overdue. Hopefully it will be voted in.

We have been over this before. I do not like it. I believe if it aint broke then why fix it. I think the NCAA should have experimented with this in the early season tourneys first before implementing it into a fulltime rule.

We have been over this before. I do not like it. I believe if it aint broke then why fix it. I think the NCAA should have experimented with this in the early season tourneys first before implementing it into a fulltime rule.

Various early season tournaments have been experimenting with it for a few years now...

Various early season tournaments have been experimenting with it for a few years now...

Which ones have? I cant remember any. Has UK done this at all?

Great!! The old line is to close, but I hope they leave High School the way it is. Most players shoot from that far out anyway.

Which ones have? I cant remember any. Has UK done this at all?

I'm not sure of specifics and I'll see what I can find when I get home. I know I've seen it used several times over the last two years...

Also listed in there...

Free Throw Change

The committee also voted to alter its free throw alignment. This change will eliminate the first lane space nearest the basket on each side of the lane and using the present second, third and fourth lane space on each side of the lane as an alignment for free throws.

I am so glad they are changing the 3 point line... it is way too close right now, imo.

Which ones have? I cant remember any. Has UK done this at all?

I pretty sure UK did two years ago in the tournament where we lost to Iowa and then beat West Virginia. I just remember for that tourmament we played our first two games at Rupp and it had that new 3 point line for it...

Thats why Kentucky didnt make very many.. It was too close!

Replacing lines for tournaments would not be a great idea. Consider the cost of sanding, removing paint and refinishing, just for a couple of games?!

Replacing lines for tournaments would not be a great idea. Consider the cost of sanding, removing paint and refinishing, just for a couple of games?!

I dont think too many schools would worry much about the cost.

UK was in the Maui Invitational when they experimented with it.