Thirty years after its introduction to college basketball, the shot clock is about to undergo a change.
The NCAA is expected to reduce its shot clock from 35 seconds to 30 seconds soon, Belmont head coach and rules committee chairman Rick Byrd told ESPN.com on Monday.
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“It's pretty evident a lot more coaches are leaning that way,” Byrd said, per ESPN. “The opinion of coaches on the shot clock has moved significantly to reducing it from 35 to 30. And all indicators are pointing toward that."
The rules committee is scheduled to meet May 12, where it's expected the matter will be discussed.
As an experiment, the 30-second shot clock was used in the NIT, CIT and CBI tournaments this year.
A shot clock was first adopted in the NBA in the 1954-55 season, and wasn't fully adopted by the NCAA until 1985. The NCAA's original shot clock was set at 45 seconds, but changed to 35 seconds in 1993.