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Naturally, UVA wanted to re-negotiate Tony Bennett's contract offering a hefty raise. Bennett declined asking that the money be allocated to his staff and facility improvements. Bennett then donated $500K for a career development center for UVA basketball players. Bennett did agree to extend his contract with the same financial terms.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/tony-bennett-declined-raise-then-he-and-his-wife-pledged-500k-career-program
Also, D1 teams start practicing on September 24. The regular season starts on November 5. The NC Game is set for April 6, 2020.
Here are the rule changes for 2019-20:
- The three-point line will be moved from its prior distance of 20 feet 9 inches (6.32 m) from the center of the basket to the FIBA standard of 6.75 metres (22.1 ft). Neither the May nor June public announcements specified where the line would lie once the arc approached the sidelines and continued into the corners. If the FIBA distance of 0.9 metres (2 ft 11 in) from the sidelines is used, translating that distance from the basket to the slightly wider NCAA court would result in the line being 1.02 metres (3 ft 4 in) from the sidelines. This change will take immediate effect in Division I, but will be delayed to 2020–21 for Divisions II and III.
- On offensive rebounds in the frontcourt, the shot clock will be reset to 20 seconds instead of the full 30.
- Any derogatory on-court comments regarding a player's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability will result in a flagrant-2 technical foul and automatic ejection.
- Two new rules will apply during the last 2 minutes of regulation and the last 2 minutes of any overtime period:
a) Coaches will be allowed to call live-ball timeouts. Currently, coaches are prohibited from calling live-ball timeouts at any time.
b) The list of calls that can be reviewed via instant replay will expand to include basket interference and goaltending.
The number of D1 teams will stay at 353 as: a) Merrimack moves up to D1 (Northeast Conference) and b) Savannah State moves down to D2.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/tony-bennett-declined-raise-then-he-and-his-wife-pledged-500k-career-program
Also, D1 teams start practicing on September 24. The regular season starts on November 5. The NC Game is set for April 6, 2020.
Here are the rule changes for 2019-20:
- The three-point line will be moved from its prior distance of 20 feet 9 inches (6.32 m) from the center of the basket to the FIBA standard of 6.75 metres (22.1 ft). Neither the May nor June public announcements specified where the line would lie once the arc approached the sidelines and continued into the corners. If the FIBA distance of 0.9 metres (2 ft 11 in) from the sidelines is used, translating that distance from the basket to the slightly wider NCAA court would result in the line being 1.02 metres (3 ft 4 in) from the sidelines. This change will take immediate effect in Division I, but will be delayed to 2020–21 for Divisions II and III.
- On offensive rebounds in the frontcourt, the shot clock will be reset to 20 seconds instead of the full 30.
- Any derogatory on-court comments regarding a player's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability will result in a flagrant-2 technical foul and automatic ejection.
- Two new rules will apply during the last 2 minutes of regulation and the last 2 minutes of any overtime period:
a) Coaches will be allowed to call live-ball timeouts. Currently, coaches are prohibited from calling live-ball timeouts at any time.
b) The list of calls that can be reviewed via instant replay will expand to include basket interference and goaltending.
The number of D1 teams will stay at 353 as: a) Merrimack moves up to D1 (Northeast Conference) and b) Savannah State moves down to D2.