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  2. Quarters vs Halves: Explaining why men's, women's college ...

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    Men's college basketball plays two 20 minute halves. Women's play four 10-minute quarters. ... The NCAA Women’s Basketball Rules Committee initially recommended the rule change to enhance the ...

  3. Rules of basketball - Wikipedia

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    In NCAA women's play (as of 2015–16, when the game changed from 20-minute halves to 10-minute quarters) and in all NFHS play beginning with the 2023–24 season: If the player's team has four or fewer team fouls in the quarter, the team fouled gets possession of the ball.

  4. College basketball - Wikipedia

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    Women's basketball changed from 20-minute halves to 10-minute quarters. In women's basketball, bonus free throws come into effect on the fifth team foul in a quarter; all bonus free throw situations result in two free throws. The women's rule regarding timeouts within 30 seconds of a scheduled media timeout was extended to the men's game. 2016–17

  5. Elam Ending - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, The Basketball Tournament's play-in games utilized the Elam Ending rules. Since the 2018 edition, the Elam Ending has been used in all games. Originally, the target score was seven points more than team leading or tie score; [6] since 2019, the target score is eight points more than the leading team's/tied score. [7] Starting with the ...

  6. Free throw - Wikipedia

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    The number of fouls that triggers a penalty is higher in college men's basketball because the game is divided into two 20-minute halves, as opposed to quarters of 12 minutes in the NBA or 10 minutes in the WNBA, college women's basketball, or FIBA play (the college women's game was played in 20-minute halves before 2015–16).

  7. Outline of basketball - Wikipedia

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    Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...

  8. Buzzer beater - Wikipedia

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    [22] In Game 4 of the 1969 NBA Finals, Sam Jones hit an off-balance 18-footer (5.5 m) as time expired to lift the Celtics to a series-tying 89–88 win over the Lakers. [23] In Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals, with the Lakers trailing the Knicks 102–100. Jerry West sank a desperation buzzer-beating 60-foot (18 m) shot to tie the game.

  9. Basketball playbook - Wikipedia

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    Motion offenses are governed by a set of rules which have everyone in motion. When numbers are used in motion (e.g. 4 out 1 in motion), the first number refers to the number of players outside the three-point line and the second number refers to the players inside the three-point line. 5 out motion offense (simple and screen away) 3-2 motion ...