New Media Timeout Rules

[BM1090]

Posted this in the game thread but it kind of got lost in the shuffle

Can someone explain the new media timeout rules to me? I thought that any timeout called near the media timeout became the media timeout? But the last two nights we've had a timeout called under 16 and under 12 and then the next dead ball is still the media timeout. The ESPN article seems to support my thinking. What am I not understanding?

"The panel approved cutting the number of timeouts each team can use in the second half from four to three and eliminating some of the extra stoppages by using any timeout called within 30 seconds of a media timeout as the scheduled break. Committee members hope that will eliminate the occasional double timeouts that occur when there is no natural break around the 16-, 12-, 8- and 4-minute marks."

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/shorter-shot-clock-fewer-timeouts-coming-2015-16/story?id=31627849

According to the play by play from tonight's game, Wojo called timeout at 15:58 in the 2nd half. We had a commercial break. Then, at 15:14 Henry committed a foul and we went to a media timeout. Something similar happened in the game against LSU. Any ideas why these timeouts didn't serve as the media timeout?

[MUwarrior16]

In the first half there are 4 media timeouts (after 16, 12, 8, and 4) while in the second half there are the same 4 timeout with an additional "first called" media timeout. No matter when the first timeout is called by either team it is a media timeout. In this specific instance the timeout called with 15:58 left on the clock was the "first called", and the timeout called with 15:14 left was the "16" minute timeout.

[BM1090]

In the first half there are 4 media timeouts (after 16, 12, 8, and 4) while in the second half there are the same 4 timeout with an additional "first called" media timeout. No matter when the first timeout is called by either team it is a media timeout. In this specific instance the timeout called with 15:58 left on the clock was the "first called", and the timeout called with 15:14 left was the "16" minute timeout.

Okay. I knew this was the rule through last year but I thought eliminating that first called timeout was among the changes. I must have been mistaken.

[Jay Bee]

Okay. I knew this was the rule through last year but I thought eliminating that first called timeout was among the changes. I must have been mistaken.

You're not mistaken. MUwarrior16 is lying.

[MUwarrior16]

You're not mistaken. MUwarrior16 is lying.

I do not know why you think I am lying. Every game we have played this year has been this 9 media timeout format.

The number of media timeouts have not been changed in the rule changes, only when they are called (if a timeout is called by a team 30 seconds or less before the scheduled media timeout).

(4th page)http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/2015-17DIMBB_Rules_Changes_20151102.pdf

Last years rules can be found here...
http://g-macsports.com/custompages/Governance/NCAArulebooks/Basketball_Mens_Rule_Book_2013-2015.pdf

Page 117 outlines that the media agreement decides how many media timeouts there are, and that "The first timeout called by either team in this half only shall become a media timeout and shall not replace the first media timeout."