KIDS QUIZ
SPORTS TEAMS AND PLAYERS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Games are played in four quarters of 10 (FIBA) or 12 minutes (NBA). College men’s games use two 20-minute halves, college women’s games use 10-minute quarters, and most United States high school varsity games use 8-minute quarters; however, this varies from state to state.
Detailed explanation-2: -The professional men’s basketball league (NBA) also uses four quarters to split up a game, with each lasting twelve minutes. Want to figure out why this change did or didn’t happen?
Detailed explanation-3: -All periods of regulation play in the NBA will be twelve minutes. All overtime periods of play will be five minutes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The BAA forerunner of the NBA went with four 12 minute quarters to make games last longer in the hopes fans would feel they received their money’s worth of entertainment.