League Play Rules

Offense:

• Four 10-minute quarters

• Running Clock

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

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

Defense:

• All defensive styles are permitted, including any zone defenses

• Full court press is permitted

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

Timeouts in Regulation and Overtime:

Regulation:

• Three full timeouts per team in 4 quarters

• One 30-second timeout per team in 4 quarters

• Each team must use at least 1 timeout per half

• Timeouts do not carry over

Overtime:

• One full 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 5 minutes

• Second OT is 3 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 period will win the game, including on free throws

  • NO timeouts

  • NO time on the clock

• Zone defenses are ALLOWED

• Full court press is ALLOWED