Rules for Age Groups 7-9 & 10-12

Offense:

• Two 18-minute halves

• Running Clock

  • Clock ONLY stops for timeouts, officials’ discretion, injury, and during the last two minutes of each half in regulation on every whistle

  • Clock does NOT stop in the last two minutes if point margin is 20+

Defense:

• Players must guard in a man-to-man coverage. No zone defenses at any point during the game

• Players can only guard their person once offense has crossed half court

• There will be no press UNTIL the final two minutes of the game

  • NO full court pressing by either team if point margin is 20+

Timeouts in Regulation and Overtime:

Regulation:

• Two timeouts per half

• Timeouts do not carry over

• Exceptions include injury or officials’ discretion

Overtime:

• One timeout per team for 1st and 2nd OT

• Timeouts do not carry over

• Exceptions include injury or officials’ discretion

• NO timeouts in sudden death (3rd OT)

Overtime:

• First OT is 2 minutes

• Second OT is 1 minute

• Running clock

  • Clock ONLY stops for timeouts, officials’ discretion, injury, and during the final minute on every whistle

• Triple OT enacts Sudden Death

  • Sudden Death Rule: First team to score a basket in the quarter will win the game, including on free throws

  • NO timeouts

  • NO time on the clock

• Players must guard in a man-to-man coverage. No zone defenses at any point during the game

• Full court press is ALLOWED