Buckeye Prep Thanksgiving Shootout Schedule

Saturday Schedule

Sunday Schedule

Game Rules

1. 2/12 minutes halves with stop and go clock. Clock runs with 20 + lead in 2^nd half.
2. Three timeouts total (2 full & one 30 second per game). One extra timeout in the 1^st overtime.
3. Three minute half-time warm-up.
4. Game time is also forfeit time.  No grace period will be allowed (Director’s Discretion).
5. Three-minute pre-game warm-up.
6. Only one coach at a time can be standing during the game.
7. Fouls: Team fouls 7-9 results in a 1-and-1 situation (per half). Team fouls 10 or more results in a two-shot penalty (per half).
8. Scores tied after regulation will result in one two-minute overtime period. After the first overtime period, the 2nd two-minute overtime period will be sudden death (Except in championship game).
9. This event is a “grade-based” tournament.
10. If a player, coach or parent is ejected from a game for any reason, they are ejected for the remainder of the day.
11. Each team will play 3 pool games and advance to a single elimination bracket play.
12. Tiebreaker criteria:
13. Won-lost record
14. Head-to-head competition;
15. Point system (+15 / -15). (Note -Regardless of the point difference,  “winning margin,” no team will receive more than a plus “15” or a minus “15” for point differential. For example, if team “A” wins by 20 points, team “A” will receive a +15 for that game.) Also, only the teams involved in the tie will be subject to the following point system formula;
16. Least amount of points allowed in pool games;
17. Coin flip.
18. Although we will attempt to provide clock operators, the home team will keep the official book and will provide a scorekeeper and the visiting team should be prepared to provide a clock operator.
19. The home team is the 1st team listed on the schedule and will wear light colored jerseys and the visiting team will wear dark colored jerseys. We will be using a 28.5. Please bring a game ball.
20. Coaches must have birth certificates and/or grade cards in hand in case of challenges.  If a player is found to be ineligible, the player will be ejected from the tournament and the team will forfeit all games the player participated in.

21. For age/grade challenges, the team issuing the challenge must submit a non-refundable $200 challenge fee.

Note: An All-Tournament Team and MVPs will be selected (by director) at the conclusion of the championship game.  In addition, individual awards will be presented to the champion and runner-up teams.