For this week's installment of Bilas/Goodman, Jay Bilas and Jeff Goodman discuss the necessary changes to the game of college basketball.
If you were college basketball's czar for a day, which on-court rule would you change, and why?
Jay Bilas: Just one? That's not enough to improve and bring up-to-date a game that has fallen behind the rest of the world. There is no "magic bullet" of a rule change that will improve things enough, so I would simply adopt FIBA international rules. We would then keep pace with the rest of the world with four quarters, fouls reset after each quarter, a 24-second clock, fewer timeouts and a wider lane. While we complain that a shorter clock leads to "bad shots," the voluminous data suggests otherwise. We praise European players for skill and knowing how to play, yet they all play with the shorter clock. Our players can compete with the shorter clock in international competition and win gold medals. Then, when they return victorious, we slow them down with the longest clock on the planet.