Law and order

If I ruled the world, or at least the part of it that sets the rules for NCAA basketball:

1. One timeout per team per half. The TV timeouts are sufficient for coaches to coach.

Barring that ...

2. Timeouts could only be called -- and substitutions could only be made -- when your team has possession of the ball and is ready to inbound. After your team has made a field goal or a free throw, possesion has switched to the other team and you are not allowed to interrupt their attempts to score except with a little thing I like to call "defense."

3. Intentional: in·ten·tion·al. adj. Done deliberately; intended: an intentional slight. Everyone knows that a losing team in the last two minutes of the game is fouling intentionally. There are rules pertaining to intentional fouls; enforce them.

4. No timeouts after the ball has been inbounded. If your team can't make it over the half-court line in 10 seconds, that's your fault, and you should lose posession. Timeouts should not bail out your incomepetent offense from a full-court press. And none of this I'm-falling-out-of-bounds-timeout nonsense. Either you have possesion, or you do not.

5. No back-to-back timeouts. None. If the other team has called a timeout, you cannot call one until someone scores or there's another stoppage in play.