1. The Official Basketball Rules of the International Amateur Basketball   Federation (FIBA) will be adopted for the competition. The English text shall be the officially accepted one to be used in settling any dispute on the interpretation of the rules.

2.   Cases of general nature shall be resolved according to the Constitution and By-Laws of the WNCAA.

3. Technical problems shall be resolved according to the current rules of FIBA.

GROUND RULES

1. TEAM COMPOSITION

1.1.  A team will be composed of fifteen (15) players . All are allowed to play.

A team may also have a maximum of five  (5) officials that can sit on the bench. These include the coach, assistant coach, trainer, scorer/statistician and utility.

1.2.  Only those listed above  will be allowed to sit on the bench.

1.3.    In the absence of the coach and assistant coach, the trainer can coach the   team.

1.4    In the absence of all officials, an authorization letter from the School Representative stating the substitute must be presented to the Commissioner prior to the game.

1.5 In the absence of any officials, the team will not be allowed to play.

2. TEAM UNIFORM

2.1.The team uniform shall be one (1) light color and one (1) dark color. The teams listed  on the left side of the printed schedule of games shall wear the light colored uniform; teams listed on the right side shall wear the dark colored uniform.

2.2. Shirts shall be of the same dominant color on both front and back,  with numbers on front and back,  with the family name at  the back. The team shall use numbers from 4 to 20.

2.3 All players must tuck-in their shirts  during the game.

2.4 Officials sitting on the bench must wear shirt with collar, long pants and shoes.

 3. TOURNAMENT FORMAT:

3.1 Seniors' A                                             Seniors' B

6 Teams - Single Round Robin                      Top 4 Cross-over

1 & 2 - Bye                                                  R1 vs R4

3 & 6 - W3                                                   R2 vs R3

4 & 5 - W4                                                   1 & 2 is twice to beat

Winner will go up                                          1 game for third place

1 vs W4                                                       Best of 3 Championships 

2 vs W3

 1 & 2 is twice to beat

 1 game for third place

  Best of 3 Championships 

3.2 Juniors/Midgets Division

Single Round Robin

Top 4 Cross Over

R1 vs R4

R2 vs R3

1 & 2 is twice to beat

1 game for third place

Best of Three Championships

4. OFFICIAL BALL:

The official ball to be used will be Molten.

5.  RESOLUTION OF TIES:

5.1 If the following points shall be taken into account to decide the ranking of teams:

            Match Won – 2 points

            Match Lost – 1 point

            Match Defaulted – 1 point

            Walk out or Forfeiture – 0 point

5.2 In case of ties, point system will be applied: Points Won
                                                                      Points Lost                                

6. FORCE MAJEURE:

Twenty minutes after a force majeure has occurred, the following rules will be applied: 

6.1       If it occurred during the first quarter  of the game, the game will be played from  the start. The game will   rescheduled .

6.2       If it occurred during the second quarter   onwards , all scores, fouls, team fouls, the time remaining, time outs,  will be carried over when the game is rescheduled and only team members present in that particular game will be allowed to play.

6.3       If it occurred during the last two minutes of the game, the   team with 20 points lead will automatically win the game. 

7. SANCTIONS :

               Players slapped with technical or  unsportsmanlike fouls or a combination of both will be  sanctioned according to the gravity of the offense.

              7.1 Two (2 ) Technical Fouls – Disqualification from the game

                                         7.2  Two ( 2 ) Unsportsmanlike Fouls – Thrown out; One game Suspension ( Next playing game )

          8. GAME TIME IS DEFAULT TIME.

 9. RESTRICTIONS

        9.1 Athletes should sport  an appropriate haircut. Bald or Skinheads are not allowed.

9.2  Athletes are not allowed to expose  any tattoos .

10. TYPHOON SIGNALS:
There will be no games in the Midgets Division when typhoon signal number 1 is declared. For typhoon signal number 2, games in the Juniors and Seniors Division will be postponed. All games will be rescheduled.

 11. DELIBERATE LOSS

Coaching Staff who deliberately allows his/her team to lose the  game, as reported by the Commissioner, will be fined with an amount and /or suspended or banned from the tournament, to be determined by the Executive Board.

12. UNFORSEEN 

Any technical matter not mentioned in the Ground Rules shall be decided by  Commissioner and the  Technical Committee. Other matters by force majeure shall be decided  in consultation with the WNCAA Executive Board.