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Originally posted by Patton
NFHS
You're right, any unused timeouts from the 2nd half carry over to overtime plus 1 timeout for each overtime period played. So if a team ends the game with 1 timeout, they will start overtime with 2. If they don't use any of those, they would start the 2nd overtime with 3, and so on...
[Edited by Patton on Oct 21st, 2004 at 02:39 PM]
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Not true.
Unused timeouts from OT periods do NOT accumulate. Each team gets one timeout per overtime period, plus any regular game unused timeouts.
If a team ends the game with 1 timeout, they will start the first overtime with 2. If they don't use either of those, they would start the 2nd overtime with 2, one for the OT and one carried over. When used, there is no distinction whether the timeout used was from the game or the OT so you may carry over all but one. A team that carries over all 3 of its regular game timeouts will never have more than four timeouts in any OT period, whether it's the first OT or the tenth OT.