NCAA women’s 3-point line

The ONLY thing I can think of is that it makes the player evaluations and WNBA prospects more predictable at the next level !

Good move, makes sense.

20' 9" for both NCAA and NAIA women's

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I once heard Ralph Miller claim that a player's shooting accuracy drops 1% every two inches beyond the 3-point line. So, for example, shooting 10 inches behind the line would cause one's accuracy drop 5%.....Two feet beyond the line would drop one's accuracy 12%.....How he gathered this information (if he ever did!!!) I do not know....

I will say, however, for years I ran a fun drill with my players where my best 3-point shooters lined up 36 inches behind my weaker 3-point shooters and they would then have 10 shot shooting contest.
Almost never would the better shooters overcome the 36" disadvantage....So, after years of running this drill, I learned that distance really makes a BIG difference in shooting accuracy beyond the 3 point line....

So yes, the extra foot, or so, added to the 3 point line is likely to reduce the accuracy of a lot of WBB players....Not all, but enough to make a difference.
GO BEAVS!!

In the majority of the world 22' 1 3/4" measures out to 6.75 meters....A manageable number if your mind is not locked into feet, inches and fractions of inches.
GO BEAVS!!

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Last Thursday the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee approved moving the women’s three-point line to 22' 1.75" from the current 20' 9" for the upcoming 2021-22 season for all divisions. This change aligns the distance of a three-point attempt with the WNBA and the international line. NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball went through the same change for their 2019-20 season.

There’s no question that three-pointers have become a bigger part of the women’s game each year. From 2015-16 to last season, the percentage of shots that were from behind the arc has increased from 30.0% to 32.9% for NCAA Division I women. That’s a 2.9% difference on an absolute basis and a 9.7% increase over the past six seasons.