The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) announced Friday that it will experiment with a new coach’s challenge system for the 2025 tournament.
The goal of the experiment is to speed up games with the new review system.
Here’s an explanation of the experimental challenge guidelines:
Coach's Challenges are coming to the NIT!
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“To permit a head coach to appeal an official’s ruling when there is a ruled out-of-bounds violation in the last two minutes of the second half or the last two minutes of any overtime period, but only when the ruling is against the head coach’s team,” the rule reads.
“When the original ruling is not changed after the instant replay review or the time frame to appeal has expired, the team requesting the appeal is charged with a 30-second or full timeout during a game using electronic media timeouts.
“Under this experimental rule, the officials voluntary use of Rule 11-2.1.e.1 would not be in effect. Officials are prohibited from voluntarily using replay to review which team caused the ball to be out of bounds during the last two minutes of the game.
“The number of appeals a head coach may make is unlimited. For any failed appeal, the team is charged a timeout. Teams may appeal even when they have no timeouts remaining; however, a failed appeal results in an administrative technical foul for an excessive timeout. The penalty for this technical foul is two free throws and the ball put back in play at the point of interruption.”
