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Section 5. Rules and Officials
A. The NJCAA Championship Basketball Tournament Representative (see Article XI, Section 1) will have the authority to select the
tournament referees with recommendations from the NJCAA Committee on Basketball.
B. Member colleges shall be limited to 30 games plus NJCAA postseason play. Note: Postseason play is defined as Regional Tournaments. Each
college may play one foreign game during the current academic year without this game counting against the 30-game limit.
C. The Official Basketball Rules to be used by the NJCAA will be the current NCAA Basketball Rules, with the exception of uniform
authenticating mark that requires pre-approval prior to production.
D. Game officials shall be rotated and shall not be employed more than two years in a row.
E. Any player ejected from a tournament game because of committing a flagrant personal foul or flagrant technical foul shall not be
allowed to participate in the next tournament game(s).
F. National Tournament Timeout Information (this applies to the National Tournament only):
1. Media Timeouts:
i. Two 60-second media timeouts will be issued at the first dead ball under 14 minutes and under 7 minutes in each half.
ii. When either of the teams uses a 75-second timeout in either the first or second half, that timeout shall replace the next
media timeout in that half. Example: If a team takes a 75-second timeout at 15:10 in the first half, that timeout shall
replace the next media timeout scheduled for under 14:00 in the first half.
2. Four 75-second timeouts and two 30-second timeouts for each team per regulation game to be used at any time.
3. When there is an extra period(s), each team is entitled to one extra 75-second timeout per extra period in addition to any
timeouts they have not used.
4. The extra timeout shall not be granted until after the ball becomes live to begin the extra period.
Section 6. Eligibility for Division II Tournament
A. The Division II Committal form must be submitted to the NJCAA National Office on or before February 1 of the committal cycle.
B. Division II colleges are permitted to grant no more than tuition, fees, course related books and up to $250 in course required
supplies per academic year in the form of athletic scholarship aid to any student basketball player.
C. Division II colleges are limited to a maximum of 15 players receiving tuition, fees, course related books and up to $250 in course
required supplies per academic year for student basketball players per team.
Section 7. Finances
Each college shall pay its own team expenses.
Section 8. National Poll
A. In order for teams to be considered for weekly national rankings, all scores from the previous week must be entered into the
NJCAA PrestoSports Stats System by 11:59 PM ET on Sunday of each week.
1. All statistics from the previous week must be entered into the NJCAA PrestoSports Stats System by 2:00 PM ET on
Monday of each week.
B. The preseason rankings will be conducted at the discretion of the NJCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Committee. Poll will be
released the last week of October. The first regular season poll will be voted on during the second week of November. The last poll
will be voted on during the first week of March. TBD due to COVID-19.
C. The NJCAA Division II Men's Basketball Poll will be released Monday of each week unless the Monday is a national holiday where
the poll will be released on Tuesday.
D. Each team’s performance from the previous week will be compiled in a report through the NJCAA PrestoSports Stats System and
disseminated to the NJCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee to be voted on individually by each voter.
1. The voters will consist of the seven members of the NJCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee plus four at-large
voters.
2. A first-place vote receives 20 points and 20th-place vote receives one (1) point
E. Poll Criteria
1. Overall Body of Work
2. Record since last poll
3. Last 10 games
4. Record vs. District
5. Record vs. DI, DII, and DIII opponents
6. Record vs. non-NJCAA opponents
F. The poll voters will submit their top-20 rankings to the NJCAA National Office online system by 1:00 PM ET on Mondays, unless the
Monday prior is a national holiday where votes will be due on Tuesday. The National Office will compile the votes for each team and
release the final rankings Monday afternoon.
G . Poll Dates: TBD due to COVID-19
^Preseason poll
*Poll is released Tuesday due to a federal holiday.