NAC386.715. Basketball: Date for beginning practice; end of season; activities between seasons; interschool scrimmages.

     1. The Board shall establish the date upon which a school may begin practicing for a basketball season at least 2 years before the beginning of the season. Each season ends upon completion of the state tournament for basketball.

     2. A school shall not, after completion of the state tournament for basketball for that season, organize a basketball team or conduct a practice for the team until the date established by the Board for the beginning of practice for the next basketball season.

     3. A team that participates in basketball as a sanctioned sport may not participate in more than two interschool basketball scrimmages during the period beginning on or after the date established by the Board for the season in which the scrimmage is played and ending on the first day of that season. The team shall not participate in a basketball scrimmage after it participates in the first basketball game for that season. As used in this subsection, “scrimmage” means a practice basketball game in which:

     (a) The score is not kept;

     (b) Unpaid sports officials are used;

     (c) The period of play is divided into a number of equal segments with running time kept; and

     (d) Spectators are not encouraged to attend.

     4. A team specified in subsection 2 shall not participate in more than two basketball games during a day.

     5. If a team specified in subsection 3 participates in a basketball game between the team and an alumni association for the school or a similarly organized group, the school shall include that game in the total number of games in which the team may participate pursuant to NAC 386.699.

     (Added to NAC by Nev. Interscholastic Activities Ass’n by R206-03, eff. 11-2-2004)