NCAA WBB Experimenting With International Three Point Line

[Charliebball]

NCAA Women’s Basketball Rules Committee examining 3-point line

 

[Checkmate]

NCAA Women’s Basketball Rules Committee examining 3-point line

good idea

 

[JordyG]

The time has come.

 

[LasVegasYank]

Could someone post the radius of the current line vs the international in feet and inches?

 

[Dillon77]

Could someone post the radius of the current line vs the international in feet and inches?

Taken from the article:

The 3-point line is 22 feet, 1¾ inches in the Olympics and International Basketball Federation world championship events. The 3-point arc in NCAA women’s basketball is now 20 feet, 9 inches.

 

[Charliebball]

Could someone post the radius of the current line vs the international in feet and inches?

damn Americans.............

 

[UConnCat]

Could someone post the radius of the current line vs the international in feet and inches?

In the WNBA and FIBA competitions the three-point arc is 22 feet 1 3/4 inches. The arc in the NCAA is 20 feet 9 inches.

Beginning in the 2013 season, the WNBA moved the 3-point arc from 20 feet 6 1/4 inches to the international standard. If you want to see the impact of that change look at the 3-point shooting of Lindsay Whalen. From 2004 through the 2012 season Whalen took 528 three-pointers. Since then, she's taken 78.

 

[Jim]

Beginning in the 2013 season, the WNBA moved the 3-point arc from 20 feet 6 1/4 inches to the international standard. If you want to see the impact of that change look at the 3-point shooting of Lindsay Whalen. From 2004 through the 2012 season Whalen took 528 three-pointers. Since then, she's taken 78.

Whalen's 3pt attempts were down in 2012 as well, before the arc was moved out. The 2012 season just happened to be when the Lynx drafted a kid who could shoot threes pretty well. I think this kid's name is Maya Moore.

 

[UConnCat]

Whalen's 3pt attempts were down in 2012 as well, before the arc was moved out. The 2012 season just happened to be when the Lynx drafted a kid who could shoot threes pretty well. I think this kid's name is Maya Moore.

The presence of Moore doesn't explain why in the 2013 season Whalen took by far more shots than in any season she's played in the WNBA (407), while remarkably only 9 were considered 3 pointers. Many of her perimeter jump shots that season would have been 3-pointers the year before. She wasn't a particularly good 3-point shooter to begin with, so there was no point in moving even farther away from the basket.

Despite the presence of Moore, the Lynx were determined to improve their three-point shooting heading in to last season and made use of a tool that tells players the angle of their shots. Whalen's confidence improved enough that, despite missing 12 games due to injury, she attempted almost as many three-pointers as in the previous 3 seasons combined.