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.

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.

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.

The idea of changing from halves to quarters has some fans upset because they are so used to the game being played the way it always has, but this change could make an already exciting product better.

" 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.

Each quarter is 10 minutes (equaling 40 minutes, the same total time as 20-minute halves in men's) and halftime is 15 minutes.