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Men's college basketball plays two 20 minute halves. Women's play four 10-minute quarters. Explaining the difference:
In NCAA women's play (as of 2015–16, when the game changed from 20-minute halves to 10-minute quarters) and in all NFHS play beginning with the 2023–24 season: If the player's team has four or fewer team fouls in the quarter, the team fouled gets possession of the ball.
The playing period is a division of time in a sports or games, in which play occurs. [1] Many games are divided into a fixed number of periods, which may be named for the number of divisions (e.g., a half or a quarter). Other games use terminology independent of the total number of divisions (e.g., sets or innings).
Most high school games are played with four 8-minute quarters, while NCAA, WNBA, and FIBA games are played in four 10 minute quarters. In 2015–2016 the NCAA changed the rules to 10 minute quarters from 20 minute halves. [14] High lobs or tip-ins can be attempted with up to 0.3 seconds left in the period per the Trent Tucker Rule.
Games during the G League Winter Showcase, held in December in Las Vegas, employed the Elam Ending after 3 quarters, with the target score set by adding 25 to the leading team's (or tied teams') score. [1] The World Basketball League (1988–1992) used a seven-point Elam period to decide games that were tied after four quarters of play.
Quarters are 10 minutes in duration instead of 12. Games are divided into four 10-minute quarters as opposed to the league's original two 20-minute halves of play, similar to FIBA and NCAA women's college rules. A recent trend with new WNBA rules has been to match them with a similar NBA rule. Since the 2006 WNBA season: [98]
In the United States, 100-point games have occurred at least once at most levels of education. At the middle school level, 13-year-old 8th grader Bob Harrison scored all 139 of his team's points in a 139–8 win on February 3, 1941. [9] [3] In high school, there have been 25 verified occurrences, 20 by male players and seven by female players.
Games are played in four quarters of 10 [43] or 12 minutes (NBA). [44] College men's games use two 20-minute halves, [45] college women's games use 10-minute quarters, [46] and most United States high school varsity games use 8-minute quarters; however, this varies from state to state.