New 3-point line for the women...

[kiyoat]

International 3-point line distance approved in women’s basketball

Hopefully this will reduce the Sanford Pentagon's "rainbow stripes" to just three lines:




Key:
High School = inside white line
NCAA WBB = middle black line
NCAA MBB/International = middle white line
NBA = outside white line

[kiyoat]

From the article:

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel today approved moving the 3-point line to the international distance of 22 feet, 1¾ inches in women’s basketball, beginning with the 2021-22 season.

The NCAA Women’s Basketball Rules Committee proposed the change after studying statistical trends that showed the number of attempted and successful 3-point field goal attempts reached all-time high levels in all three divisions during the 2020-21 season.

In Division I, women’s teams attempted 16.4 3-point field goal attempts per game last season and made an average of 6.1 shots beyond the arc, which had been set at 20 feet, 9 inches.

For reference, in the Summit League last season, here are the averages:

3pt Attempts per game:
16.4 Division I average

18.8 Omaha (lowest)
20.2 USD
20.9 SDSU
22.2 Summit Ave
26.5 WIU (second highest)
27.4 Denver (highest)

3pt Makes per game:
6.1 Division I average

5.8 UND (lowest)
6.5 SDSU
6.7 USD
7.3 Summit Ave
8.8 WIU (second highest)
9.0 Denver (highest)

[kiyoat]

also, 3pt %

.315 = Division I average

.288 UND
.312 SDSU
.315 Omaha
.328 Denver
.331 Summit Average
.331 WIU
.331 ORU
.331 USD
.350 KC
.376 NDSU

The Summit was the 5th best conference in this stat, behind:

338 SEC
335 Big Ten
335 WCC
334 Big 12
331 Summit

[kiyoat]

So, who are the winners and losers with this new rule?

I have to imagine that this helps USD and SDSU in conference play a little, and possibly hurts all Summit teams in non-conference play vs P-6 teams? Not a huge effect, though.