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ONLY THE BEST PLAY RULES
The National High School Federation Rules and Regulations will apply to all
tournament games with the following exceptions: All USSSA rules may not apply
in this tournament, see tournament director for clarification.
All games will be played in halves for all grades
9u/3rd Grade Division 14 minutes
10u/4th Grade Division 14 minutes
11u/5th Grade Division 14 minutes
12u/6th Grade Division 14 minutes
13u/7th Grade Division 14 minutes
14u/8th Grade Division 14 minutes
15u/9th Grade Division 14 minutes
16u/10th Grade Division 16 minutes
17u/11th Grade Division 16 minutes
Halftime shall be 2 minutes. At least a five-minute pre-game warm up will be given unless games are running behind schedule. No games will start before their scheduled time. Overtime period will be two minutes and double overtime will be sudden death.
1. A player will be disqualified after committing a 6th personal foul (technical fouls are included) in the 15u to 17u age brackets. A player will be disqualified after committing a 5th personal foul in all other age brackets.
2. A total of (2) 30 second time-outs per half will be allowed to each team. One (1) additional time-out per team will be awarded for each overtime period. There will be no carryover of time-outs from regulation to overtime periods.
3. Regulation sized basketballs will be used for boy’s 7th grade division through High School Division. All other divisions in boys and girls competition will use the smaller sized basketball.
4. Two (2) Technical fouls during a game on any player, coach, or team representative will result in their disqualification for the rest of the game.
5. The clock will be stopped for all whistle stoppages. Not a continuous clock.
6. Each team is responsible for their warm-up and game balls and/or any other items brought to the game. The tournament sponsors or their representatives are not responsible for lost items.
7. 20 points+ leads will result in continuous clock until lead is less than 20 points.
8. Officials and site directors must contact the executive staff before any game will be called a forfeit.
9. Protests – If a team submits a protest of an opponent for the use of an illegal player the protesting team must give the protest in writing along with a $100 to the site director within 10 minutes of the completion of the game they are protesting. The protesting team’s $100 will be refunded if the protest is upheld and forfeited is the protest is not upheld. Teams who have a protest filed against them must produce birth certificates and/or grade reports for the player in question to the site director within 30 minutes from the time the protest is filed to proceed in the tournament. A final decision will be made by the Tournament Director and will not be subject to any further discussion.
10. Pre-game warm-up will be a minimum of 5 minutes and half time times will be a
maximum of 2 minutes. This will be under the discretion of the Site Director.
Tiebreaker for play-offs:
1. Head to Head
2. Point differential…Maximum 15 points. (Forfeits are scored at 15-0) Point differential calculation is based solely on the games between the tied teams. In the event of a three-way tie for first, point differential will be used to establish the pool winner.
The head to head game between the remaining two teams will determine the runner-up position.
3. Defensive Point System- If 3 teams remain tied after the above tie breakers the team with the lowest total points allowed will advance. The remaining teams will revert back to tie breaker #1
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