DuPage Youth Travel Basketball League –League Guidelines
Game Scheduling
- League play will include each team home/away
- League play will begin November 1, 2007 and conclude by February 24, 2008
- Teams schedule league games at their discretion
- Rescheduling of league games is allowed at the coaches discretion
- Teams may also schedule non-league and tournament games at their discretion
- Coaches will participate in a mandatory scheduling meeting (October 28)
- Head coaches will provide a copy of their league schedule to the league coordinators for posting on the DYTBL web site
League Standings
- Home team coaches are responsible for e-mailing league game results to their league coordinators in a timely fashion for posting on the web site
- Standings impact tournament seeding
- First tie-breaker – head to head play
- Second tie-breaker - total least points allowed
- The winner of the league regular season may choose to purchase trophies for their team at their expense
Tournaments
- All league rules apply to tournament play
- Post Season tournament will be a single elimination tournament.
- Tournament entry costs will be set by the host site and include referee, gym rental and trophy fees
- Tournament coordinator (could be site head coach or Park District member) will be responsible for e-mailing game results to league coordinators for posting on web site
Player Guidelines
- For the 2007/2008 season players in the boy’s division can be boys or girls but must be in the grade of the league or younger. For the girl’s division, players must be girl’s and must be in the grade of the league or younger.
DuPage Youth Travel Basketball League –Games Rules
- Rules apply to all league games and tournament play
- Except for specific rules below, IHSA rules apply.
- Games will consist of 4-7 minute quarters with clock stops on all whistles. Quarters 1 and 2 constitute first half while quarters 3 and 4 constitute second half. 1 minute allowed between quarters.
- Two time outs per team per half. First half time outs do NOT roll over to second half. Second half time outs DO rollover to overtime. One additional time out is given for each overtime. Time outs are 1 minute in length.
- There will be a half time of 5 minutes between halves.
- In case of tie game after regulation, first overtime will be 2 minutes in length. Subsequent overtimes will be 1 minute in length. Clock stops on all whistles. 1 minute allowed between 4th quarter and the beginning of overtime and each subsequent overtime. Jump balls start overtime.
- Games may be shortened by referees and/or officials at their discretion, with the exception of overtime.
- Three point shot is in effect.
- Full court press is allowed at any time during the game for 6th-8th Grade. Fourth and Fifth Grade cannot full court press until the last one minute of the first half or the last two minutes of the game. A team cannot press if they are ahead by 15 points or more.
- Defense may be man-to-man or zone.
- Five fouls result in foul out. Bonus (1 and 1) on 7th team foul and thereafter each half. Super Bonus (2 shot) on 10th team foul and thereafter each half.
- Two technical fouls on coach or player in one game result in immediate ejection. Technical fouls count as non-shooting fouls.
- At the discretion of the referees, any player judged guilty or fouling with deliberate intent to injure will be ejected.
- Referees are instructed to have zero tolerance for foul or abusive language from players, coaches, parents and/or fans. Referees have the authority to issue technical fouls and, if necessary, ejections. Coaches are responsible for players, parents and/or fan behavior. Failure on part of coach, player, parent and/or fan to promptly leave gym upon ejection will result in game forfeiture.
- Referee’s decisions are final. No protests allowed.
- At a 30 point discrepancy in the score, the scoreboard will be set to “0-0”. The clock will continue to be shown as well as the number of fouls. The official scorebook will still be maintained with the final score reported for the standings in the web site.
- Home team’s score book is the official scorebook. Both teams are responsible for entering their line-up. Home team is responsible for supplying someone to keep the scorebook as well as the clock.
- Teams must supply their own warm-up balls.
- Referees – 2 patched per game
- Ball size – 4th/5th Grade Boy’s & 5th-8th Grade Girl’s will use a 28.5 ball. 6th-8th Grade Boy’s will use a regulation size ball.
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