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Men’s basketball: Brush up on new NCAA rules, officiating initiatives for 2015-16 season

With college basketball kicking off across the nation this weekend, it’s important to have a refresher on some of the changes the NCAA made during the offseason.

The shot-clock has been shortened from 35 seconds to 30, and the three-foot arc under the basket is now four-feet.

The long NBA season wrapped up in mid-June and it ended with the Golden State Warriors taking home their first …

Here are some other points of emphasis the NCAA said officials will be on the lookout for during the 2015-16 season.

We’ve highlighted a few key aspects below:

Shooters kicking their legs out

This has been a tactic shooters have used to draw a foul, usually from three-point range.