Each basketball playing school may choose to participate in an inter-school controlled scrimmage on the third week of their season, in accordance with the IHSAA calendar.

Only one scrimmage shall be held by a high school. JV players and freshman players may be utilized, provided that they have been included in the practices prior to the scrimmage and that their plays are included as part of the scrimmage time limit. There shall be no separate freshman or junior varsity scrimmages organized.

Schools who choose to participate in a scrimmage must schedule another Indiana team. Schools are implored to use good judgment and attempt to scrimmage against a team that is similar to their talent and skill level.

There shall be a contract between the two schools which will include the location, time and any financial arrangement between schools.

Spectator admission into the scrimmage would be an option of the participating schools. Both schools must be in agreement with financial arrangements prior to the scrimmage.

Each team may have the head coach and two additional coaches on the court during the scrimmage. All other coaches will be on the sideline, or in the bleachers.

Each team shall have the opportunity to videotape/film the scrimmage. Only one person from each team will be allowed to videotape/film the scrimmage. Scouting should not be allowed at the scrimmage. The scrimmage videotapes shall not be exchanged with other coaches for the purpose of scouting. The purpose of the scrimmage is evaluating your own squad.

Coaches should communicate with each other prior to the scrimmage. This should be done to assure players are competing against players of the same comparable talent level and so that coaches are in agreement as to the format of the time schedules.

Only those players who have participated in five days of practice shall be allowed to participate in this scrimmage.

The maximum amount of time and maximum number of players in a scrimmage is outlined in the "Scrimmage Time Schedule" below.

Two officials shall be provided by the home team. There will be a running clock. The only time the clock will stop will be for an injury. Officials should go through all signals, but the clock operator should not stop the clock for fouls, violations, etc. This does not apply to the "GAME SITUATIONS" part of the scrimmage.

Officials are responsible for seeing that the clock keeps running and that no more than the maximum time of each segment is played. This is a very important point. The scrimmage officials are responsible for enforcing all the specified rules, including the time rules of the scrimmage. No one has the authority to supersede the officials decision on any aspect of the scrimmage.

15 Minute warm-up

• 3-15 Minute Quarters With Running Clock
• Unlimited time-outs with clock running.
• 5 minutes between quarters for drink and rest.
• No free throws will be shot.
• Score will be kept but will start over each quarter.
• Substitution at any time during a dead ball.

2nd Session (approximately 45-60 minutes)

Depends on how many time-outs are used.

Each game situation will be done two times, once by each team. There will be a stop clock, and free throws will be shot. Both teams will be in 1+1 bonus situations on 1st foul and a 2-shot bonus on a 2nd foul. Both teams have two time-outs that can be used in any one of the six game situations. There will be a one minute time-out in between each game situation for both teams.

1st situation – 2 minutes left in the game. Home team down 5 points and it’s Visitor’s basketball under Home’s basket.

2nd situation – 1 minute left in game. Home team down 2 points with ball under Visitor’s basket.

3rd situation – 30 seconds left in game. Home team down 2 points with ball at half court.

4th situation – 20 seconds left in game. Home team down 3 points with ball at half court.

5th situation – 10 seconds left in game. Home team down 2 points with ball under Visitor’s basket.

6th situation – 5 seconds left in game. Home team down by 1 point with the Visiting team shooting a 1-and-1 free throw shot.