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From: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: college basketball games are too long
Message-ID: <4015@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 03:51:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 03:51:42 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:32:46 EST
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	The NCAA is considering rule changes to shorten the game. 
Currently most of the games run over two hours and it looks like
eternity for the fans in the last minute.
But what's wrong with a long basketball game?

	If football can be a 3 hr game, why can't basketball? 
A < 3 hr football game is considered good, why isn't a basketball game
which is much shorter?  Even with the last
minute of a college basketball game lasts forever, the game never goes 
more than 2 hours and 30 minutes (excluding overtimes).
If you think the game is too long, you may forget the first 
half. Just start watching the game at the second half, 
you still have more than an hour of basketball.

	If the game really has to be cut short, why don't we have a 30 minute game?
With 10 minute less of playing time, the game would
certainly run less than two hours.

	You know, if the game eliminates the last minute foul-shooting
contest, Dean Smith would not have won so many games,
and Jim Valvano would not have stolen the NCAA title in 1983.

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					Eddy Lor
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