Want a time out? Stay on your feet!

According to the Associated Press, the NCAA’s Basketball Rules Committees is sending a proposal to the playing rules oversight panel regarding the good-ol’ flying-out-of-bounds timeout rule.

“With players holding the ball with two hands, diving out of bounds, there’s some risk of injury,” Larry Keating, the rules committee chair, told the AP. “The NBA had that problem four years ago and dealt with it. I just think it was something that everybody wanted to see and we were willing to do it.”

Another proposal could force Division III schools (oh, and Division II, too) to add clocks that display tenths of a second and shot clocks mounted above backboards by 2010. Will this happen? It might. Other proposals aimed at the NCAA as a whole have been struck down on the basis that they have been inconsiderate of anyone outside of Division I, but this seems like a reasonable request and timeframe.