Basketball Victoria

Heat Policy

 

When the court temperature reaches 30oC the venue managers must consider implementing, and where the court temperature reaches 35oC, must implement the following timing rules:

 

Based on a 50-minute schedule played in halves, the game time must be reduced to 2 halves of 18 minutes with each team having 2 timeouts per half. 

The referee must call a compulsory timeout close to the 9-minute mark in each half and clock stops in this timeout only.

 

Games will be abandoned if the court temperature reaches 40oC

 

If a game is abandoned before it commences or before or at half time it is counted as a draw;

 If a game is abandoned after half time, the game score stands as a final result.