NJSIAA Season Dates:
- December 1- First Practice
- December 8 – First competition allowed
- January 1 – (or first game, whichever is earlier) Roster due on NJ.com
- February 6 – cutoff for committing to tournament
- February 14 – 11:59 pm, cutoff date for power points
- February 15 – power points finalized
- February 16-17 – seeding finalized
- February 25-28 – Round 1
- March 1-6 – Round 2
- March 7-11 – Semifinals
UPDATE: The NJSIAA Unified Basketball Championship game will take place on Sunday, March 15 at 10:30AM at Jersey Mike’s Arena at Rutgers.
Unified Cup Basketball
- For middle schools and high schools not participating at the NJSIAA level
- March 19 at Multi Sport Kindgom in Manalapan. 10am start.
- Register here by February 13
The High School Unified Cup is only for players and teams not competing in the NJSIAA tournament.
Schools with two separate Unified Basketball teams may enter one team in each tournament (Unified Cup and NJSIAA) but no player may compete on both teams. The school must have two separate, complete rosters with an appropriate ratio of athlete:partner (approximately 1:1)
Unified Cup Basketball for SOColleges will take place April 11 at Princeton University.
General Competition Information
- Games will consist of four 8-minute quarters with a running clock (exceptions below in rules)
- Competitions are 5v5
- Teams must maintain a ration of 3 athletes to 2 Unified Partners on the court
- No game ends in a tie
- High schools should use standard basketballs – Size 7 / 29.5
Participation Eligibility
- To participate interscholastically and at the NJSIAA level, students must be able to participate independently.
- NJSIAA single‑sport participation rules apply to both NJSIAA Basketball and Track & Field. Because NJSIAA Unified Basketball is classified as a strenuous sport, student‑athletes whose teams advance to the NJSIAA Unified Basketball postseason may not participate in any other NJSIAA winter sport, with the sole exception of Varsity Bowling or Unified Bowling.
- Students competing in a Unified Sport may not also be a Varsity athlete in that sport.
Competition Rules
- All games consist of four 8-minute quarters, running time with the exceptions listed below:
- The clock stops ONLY on foul shots and timeouts.
- During the last two minutes of the second half, the clock stops on every whistle.
- If overtime is necessary, the period is five minutes, running time.
- Teams are allotted five timeouts per game.
- The bonus occurs in each half when a team picks up its 7th team foul.
- The bonus will ALWAYS result in 2 free throws.
- Team fouls are reset to zero at the beginning of the second half.
- All teams must always maintain a ratio of 3 Athletes to 2 Partners on the floor.
- Once a game begins and throughout competition, only the following ratios are allowed: 3 athletes and 2 partners, 2 athletes and 2 partners.
- Failure to adhere to the required ratio results in a forfeit.
- One team warning per game for delay of game if player interferes with the ball after a basket is scored.
- A technical foul will be called and enforced thereafter.
- No free throws will be taken for double technical fouls or simultaneous technical fouls by opponents.
- Play resumes with an alternating possession throw-in at the division line.
- No player in a marked lane space shall fake entrance into the lane to cause an opponent to enter early and commit a violation.
- During a Free Throw all players must wait until the ball hits the rim before they can step in.
- In a free-throw situation; there are no substitutions permitted until after the first free throw.
2025-26 Champions
- NJSIAA North Sectional: Bloomfield
- NJSIAA South Sectional: Old Bridge
- NJSIAA State Champions: Bloomfield
- Unified Cup High School Division A: Cherokee
- Unified Cup High School Division B: Morris Knolls
- Unified Cup Middle School: Woodrow Wilson