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On February 22, 2019, the NCAA announced a set of experimental rules that it will use in the 2019 NIT. The following rules were also used in the 2018 NIT:

• The three-point line will be moved to the FIBA standard of 6.75 metres (22 ft 2 in). When the arc approaches the sideline, it will change to a line parallel to and 1.02 metres (3 ft 4 in) from the sideline.

• The free-throw lane will be widened from the current college standard of 12 feet to the NBA standard of 16 feet.

• After an offensive rebound, the shot clock will reset to 20 seconds instead of the current NCAA standard of 30.

A set of rules relating to free throws that had been used in the 2017 NIT will be used again in the 2019 edition, with one modification:

• Team foul counts, for purposes of determining bonus free throws, reset to zero at the 10-minute mark of each half, effectively dividing the game into quarters for that purpose.

• The "one-and-one" will be eliminated. All bonus free throw situations will result in two free throws for the non-fouled team. This mirrors current practice in NCAA women's basketball, which has been played in quarters since the 2015–16 season.

• Teams will enter the bonus upon the fifth team foul in each 10-minute segment.

• The team foul count will reset to zero at the start of any overtime period. Teams will enter the bonus upon the fourth team foul in an overtime period.

• In a completely new feature, the NCAA will adopt the NBA's bonus rule regarding team fouls in the last 2 minutes of any period. Teams will enter the bonus on the second team foul in the last 2 minutes of a 10-minute segment or overtime period, regardless of the total team foul count at that point of the period.

billyjack wrote:I definitely like pushing the 3-point line back. I've been babbling about that for years.
Currently at 20'-9".
FIBA/WNBA is 22'-2".
So 17 inches deeper.
I think it's a big improvement.

Yeah, i agree with mpwalsh. I don't want to lose the one-and-one. I don't understand the push to essentially go to quarters, except for the reason that "everyone else does it".