This could get ugly
The NCAA NCAA Basketball Oversight Panel will likely approve the proposal to move the men's 3-point line back a foot to 20 feet 9 inches. There's the conspiracy that this rule is being put into affect to make smaller, accurate shooting Mid-Majors less successful against the bigs of the major conferences but there's simpler concerns than that: there's going to be more lines and more confusion.
There is no proposal to push back the women's line; that mean's two separate lines a foot apart. Plenty of people believe this could get confusing for players and referees with the two and maybe three (if a team plays in an NBA arena).
I doubt this will make judging a three as confusing as some people believe, but a proposal to help those out who can't tell the difference between two lines a foot apart comes from the AOL Fanhouse NCAAB blog via an ESPN Insider article:
There will be two separate lines of contrasting colors. Rules committee chair Larry Keating, an associate athletic director at Kansas, is proposing to have a one-foot wide band instead of two separate lines. He wants to see the women play off the front of the band and the men off the back. The intent is to have a vote next year for either the two lines or a one-foot band.
Didn't some hockey leagues do this for a bit, make the blue line huge? The line would be hideous but imagine how much worse things would get if teams like Boise State started decorating the inside of the line. I don't need to horses, flames, paws or anything else prancing through the 3-point line.
