Men's college basketball will look markedly different next season — which is how the game's powerbrokers want it.
A month after drastic changes were proposed by the men's basketball rules committee, affecting everything from the length of the shot clock to the amount of timeouts given to each team, those proposed changes have been officially adopted.
The NCAA announced the news in a tweet Monday afternoon, confirming that Division I men's basketball teams will play with a 30-second shot clock, a four-foot restricted-area arc and with four timeouts instead of five (with no more than three carrying over from the first to the second half).