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For the National Invitation Tournament, the Colorado Buffaloes will have to play a slightly different brand of college basketball than they are accustomed to.
As part of an experiment designed to test the waters of changing men's college basketball from a game played in two 20-minute halves to four 10-minute quarters, the NIT will operate in a format that meshes the two approaches.
While the NIT still will be played in 20-minute halves, the team foul counts and ensuing foul shots instead will mimic the women's game, which moved to four-quarter games before the 2015-16 season.