Virginia is hosting North Carolina in an important ACC basketball game. The league’s best defender, Reece Beekman, is tasked with guarding one of the league’s best offensive players, RJ Davis ...

The NCAA's rule changes are a good step — but not far enough to ensure games don't get bogged down by the refs ...

This has to do with the rules of basketball and the length of college games. NBA games are 48 minutes long, and games of that length are designated to allow six fouls before a player is ejected.

Learn what triggered the NBA to create the clear path foul rule and how it changed fast-break defense forever.

Multiple key college basketball rules changes were approved Tuesday by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel. Each of the approved rule changes will take effect beginning in the 2025-26 season.

NBA has Flagrant 1 and Flagrant 2 fouls, but these rules do not exist in the FIBA rule book. If a player is assessed with a Flagrant 1 foul, the opposition team gets two free throws.

Olympic basketball rules, explained: How fouls, goaltending, 3-point line & more differ from NBA Gilbert McGregor When basketball begins at the 2024 Paris Olympics, fans are reminded that FIBA ...

Professional basketball is faster, more physical, and increasingly tactically sophisticated. Even the smallest foul can tilt ...

According to the FIBA rules, after the fourth team foul in a period, two free throws are awarded for each non-shooting foul. Nevertheless, the rule excludes offensive fouls or fouls by the team in ...

The women's game already is played in quarters instead of halves, while the men's game with its 20-minute halves remains an outlier in basketball. An NCAA rules committee “recommended NCAA ...

Popkin has long held the view that there were major problems with the fouling rules in college basketball and even wrote and published a book on the topic in 2014, titled “How to Fix Basketball ...