Kansas Basketball: 4-quarters or 20-minute halves?

Kansas basketball has come a long way since the original rules of basketball. The NCAA keeps changing the way the game is played.

Every sport evolves and makes adjustments to their game.

Basketball has come a long way from James Naismith’s original rules on display in the DeBruce Center on the University of Kansas campus.

Kansas Basketball coach Bill Self is a master at making adjustments to each year’s changes to the on-court rules. As a matter of fact, Self and his staff do an amazing job with all the off-court rules changes too.

I’m not sure how referees, players and coaches keep up. If it’s not how fouls are called, it’s changing the amount of time on the shot clock.

In the summer of 2015, Kansas basketball needed to prepare for the faster play with changes in the NCAA shot clock.

Coach Self used winning the World University game in South Korea to help his team prepare for the change.

In the first place, new rules are proposed, debated and discussed every year. Some rules are worth consideration. On the other hand, most are a waste of time.

Among the biggest rules change this year would have returned men’s basketball to four-quarters. How would that change the game for coach Self and Kansas Basketball?

For now, we won’t have to think about it.

Joe Giglio wrote details on the discussion in the Charlotte Observer.

One Big 12 team did have some significant experience playing four, ten-minute quarters this spring.

TCU won the post-season National Invitation Tournament (I don’t watch it either)

On behalf of the NCAA, the NIT used the four-quarter format.

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Did someone at the NCAA really think it was necessary to “test” whether playing four-quarters was a good idea?

Women’s college basketball plays four-quarters. By the same token, any high school game I’ve ever watched is four-quarters.

Maybe the NCAA should ask the fans what they want.

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