The days of the two narrowly-spaced 3-point stripes at college basketball venues across the country could be coming to an end.

The NCAA confirmed it may consider extending the women’s 3-point line when its women’s basketball rules committee meets in May.

At that meeting, the committee will discuss data collected this year on players’ shooting percentages from behind the men’s and women’s lines, according to NCAA spokesman Cameron Schuh.

The NCAA asked coaches to record shooting percentages from behind the men’s and women’s lines in one exhibition game this year.

“The rules committee and the coaches were discussing last year how they’ve noticed that the women were shooting from behind the men’s 3-point line at times,” Schuh wrote in an e-mail. “There were a few games here and there were [sic] some schools tracked on the shooting percentages from behind both lines. The results showed the shooting percentages were not that different between the two lines.”

Schuh said there are no immediate plans to move the line back, but conceded it could be a possibility in the future.

The decision to look into 3-point shooting percentages came from coaches’ feedback.

“I think [coaches] probably wanted to see the data first,” UConn women’s basketball spokesman Patrick McKenna said, “but I think it’s a lot like the men’s game where they wouldn’t mind seeing it moved back a little bit.”

In 2008-09, the NCAA moved the men’s line back a full foot, to 20 feet, 9 inches, just short of the international line. At that time the women’s rules committee opted to keep the women’s line at 19 feet, 9 inches, which is the same as the WNBA’s stripe.

In a 2007 article by ESPN’s Andy Katz, Syracuse men’s head coach Jim Boeheim and Florida coach Billy Donovan reacted favorably to the extension of the men’s line, though both said that if the 3-point line was going to be extended, the free-throw lane should be widened as well.

In the same article, Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl said he was against extending the line, and that he was skeptical of the idea that an extended 3-point line would open up space in the lane, saying, “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Minnesota women’s basketball spokesman Michael Molde said he hasn’t heard much talk about extending the line, but that a memo from the NCAA indicated about 60 percent of 3-pointers last year were attempted from beyond the men’s line.

“I think the NCAA is always thinking about ways that they can make the game better … but they’re probably contemplating all sorts of other rule changes,” Molde said.