Men’s college basketball coaches will have the ability to challenge at least one call per game starting with the 2025-26 season.
On June 10, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rule changes for the upcoming season designed to improve in-game flow. Players will be awarded continuation if they are fouled while driving the basket, officials are no longer allowed to conduct video reviews on out-of-bounds plays unless during a coach’s challenge and coaches will be given as many as two video replay challenges per game.
Each team will start with one video challenge. If a coach’s challenge is successful, the team will be given a second one for the rest of the game whether it ends in regulation or overtime. However, teams must have at least one timeout available in order to challenge a call.
There will still be plenty of opportunities for officials to invoke video reviews regardless of whether a coach challenges a call. During the final two minutes of games and in overtimes, officials can review basket interference/goaltending calls and plays that occur within the restricted arc. At any point in the game, they can review timing mistakes, scoring errors, shot clock violations, 2-point versus 3-point field goal attempts, flagrant fouls and such plays.
The changes were approved “to help enhance the flow of the game in men’s basketball for the 2025-26 season,” the panel stated in a release.
A new continuous motion rule states that “an offensive player who ends his dribble going toward the basket and absorbs contact from the defense will be permitted to pivot or complete the step the player is on and finish the field goal attempt.” Under the previous rules, only a player in the act of shooting while being fouled would be awarded a field-goal attempt.
The panel also recommended that Division I conferences create a group to study potentially moving from playing two halves to four quarters.
Ohio State men’s basketball beat writer Adam Jardy can be reached at ajardy@dispatch.com, on Bluesky at @cdadamjardy.bsky.social or on Twitter at @AdamJardy.
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