Question about player and 4 quarters per night...

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Originally Posted by BayStateRef

This is the Massachusetts rule:

66.7.2 No member of a high school basketball squad shall participate in
more than four quarters per day. (This does not include official
over-time periods.)

I had a varsity coach ask me this week if a player who fouled out in the JV game could play in the varsity game. I told her that as long as she had eligible quarters, she could play....and then I asked if she had "fouled out" for receiving two technical fouls (no...just five fouls.) I find it helps to know the state rules.

hm... I'm pretty sure PIAA doesn't have any provisions like that. I think the only ineligibility in these situations is that anyone who plays JV cannot START (i.e. be one of the 5 starters on either team) the Varsity game, but can certainly play at any point after the initial jump ball. Other than that, I'm pretty certain there are no quarters restrictions.