NCAA is one of the most watched sports in the United States. Fans gather around any and every television they can just to watch their team battle against their rivals. At the end of a long season, full of blood, sweat, and passion, is a tournament. This tournament, conveniently named after the month is falls in, is one of the most famous postseasons in all of sports. March Madness is 3 weeks of upsets, heart racing finishes, and what some call “bad referees”. These bad referees may call some fouls incorrectly but most of the blame can go to poor rules in the rulebook. The NCAA looked to fix this over the past offseason. With adding the new rules and refinements, NCAA was able to keep the basketball games integrity and improve it in the …show more content…
"It's not great for the sport. One-and-done is not particularly great" (Calhoun) Basketball takes more than skill and always will. One vital piece missing with some teams is the chemistry that makes player know what is happening and where everyone is going to be. One team that is kean at “One and Dones”, or for better term a player that comes in and leaves freshman year, is Kentucky. But team like Iowa and Iowa State who has majority of their lineup in their senior year is that they have so much more chemistry "What it is, I think, is a developing problem in college athletics and college basketball" (Calhoun) Developing a team over many years is vital to not only getting a better team but possibly becoming a hall a fame coach with a hall of fame team such as the Fab Five. Developing a team is more than getting the players to get along but includes the players enjoying each other and becoming a family. For some this takes a couple years, for others, it could be as instantaneous as when they first meet. All these small rule changes equate to a big impact but no change has as big of an impact as the shorter shot clock …show more content…
Teams with few fans are not able to make as much money, have nicer facilities, or sometimes even have a team. “‘I support and understand for fans in the stands and [watching] on television, it could be long and tedious’” (Local). When it got brought up that fans are getting annoyed by the lengthy games stretching out much longer than anticipated, fans begin tuning out. By speeding up the shot clock and coaches not being able to call timeouts during play, the NCAA was able to speed up the game. "...the reduction of five second-half timeouts to four, Moore, predictably, wasn't a fan." Some rules are not as popular as others as they may not benefit the team as much as they benefit the game and the audience who views it. Being able to watch a game in two hours is much better than a game that has every timeout used, loads of reviews taking precious time and long shot clocks where the team would just hold the ball. All theses rule changes add up to one thing; A better game of basketball that is more enjoyable to watch and