• The National Collegiate Athletics Association creates the rules for basketball extra time periods.basketball image by Alexey Klementiev from Fotolia.com
  
  Extra-time regulations for college basketball games are governed by the NCAA Basketball 2010 and 2011 Men's and Women's Rules book. In a sport such as basketball, which doesn't provide for tie games, provisions must be in place to ensure each game has a winner. A number of rules in the NCAA Basketball book ensure extra time periods give both teams fair and ample conditions and opportunity to win a game.
  
  

Conditions

• If a game is tied at the end of regular time, that game will go into an extra time period to determine the winner. The extra time period will run a total of five minutes. The extra period is to be preceded by a one-minute intermission. No corrections of previous timing mistakes will be carried over into an extra time period. However, timing errors or clock malfunctions that occur during extra time periods may be rectified during the period by adding or subtracting time. The entire five-minute extra time period will be played, after which the team with the most points is the winner. If the game still is tied, another five-minute period is played. This repeats until one team has more points at the end of a five-minute extra time period.
  
  

Play

• Free throws for technical fouls during regular play may be taken after time has run out in the event that a game is tied. If there are no shots to be awarded to determine a regular-time winner, a game will proceed to an extra period. An extra period is officially an extension of the second half of the game. As such, play begins by a throw-in from the team that last had possession of the ball as regular time expired. Unlike regular periods, teams do not change baskets during extra time periods. Any previously unused timeouts carry over to extra periods, and each team is given an additional, 75-second timeout for extra time use.
  
  

Additional Provisions

• It is the duty of the officiating team to describe the terms of extra time periods to the players and staff of both teams. As many extra periods will be played as necessary to break the tie, the NCAA provides no provisions to limit the time of a game that has gone into extra periods, other than that each must be five minutes long. The game clock will be stopped after each successful shot with less than one minute remaining in each extra time period. During the intermission before extra time, mascots, cheerleaders, and bands are allowed onto the courts, and live or recorded music may be played in the stadium.