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Quarters vs halves: Why women's, men's NCAA tournament games use ...The NBA has since kept the format and made each quarter 12 minutes, resulting in a 48-minute game. The NCAA changed their format to two halves in 1954, three years after the change.
Why do men's and women's NCAA Tournament games have different formats? Men's games are two 20-minute halves, while women's are four 10-minute quarters ...
Each quarter is 10 minutes (equaling 40 minutes, the same total time as 20-minute halves in men's) and halftime is 15 minutes.
" Four quarters instead of two halves: Men's college basketball is the only visible form of the game in the world that does not have quarters. It is not a question of remaining unique.
In women's college basketball, there were seven total media stoppages outside of team timeouts: four media timeouts midway through a quarter, the end of the first and third quarters, and at halftime.
While the men play 20-minute halves, the women play four 10-minute quarters. So we get 40-minute games in regulation for both the men and women, but the way they are split up is the big difference.
Ten years after women's college basketball switched from two halves to four quarters, the NCAA is taking steps toward making the same change for men's games at some point.
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