How Long Is College Basketball Game. There are variations of time a basketball game lasts in different levels from National Basketball Association NBA Women National Basketball Association WNBA international basketball federal FIBA Summer Olympic US college basketball High School basketball and. The overtime period lasts for five minutes.
Televised college games last for around 2 hours 10 minutes. There are nine media timeouts and up to five timeouts per coach for a total of 30 minutes of timeouts. Unlike the four quarters used in other typical matches the college games take two 20-minute halves.
Its different for different leagues and levels of play.
Add it all up and you get 42 minutes about 13 minutes less than the allotted play and break time in college games. The overtime period lasts for five minutes. Add in times with a dead ball timeouts halftime late tip-off 4th quarter fouls commercials etc I would say the game lasts anywhere. College basketball OT lasts for five minutes unless the game is still tied in which case it goes on for another five minutes.