Texas A&M women’s basketball coach Gary Blair, who led the Aggies to the 2011 NCAA Championships, likes the changes coming to NCAA women’s basketball games next season, the most noticeable of which is a format change to four 10-minute quarters.
“Even though basketball was invented in the United States, it has become an international game,” said Blair. “The rules that are being put in place are closer to what the WNBA, the international game, and what our kids who are playing overseas are using.”
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the rules on Monday, moving away from the 20-minute halves the sport has always used.