University of North Georgia Athletics

All team transportation should drop off on the loading dock side of the UNG Convocation Center and team personnel should enter in the side doors labeled VISITING TEAM ENTRANCE. Please do not enter through the front main ticketing entrance on the upper mezzanine. If the VISITING TEAM ENTRANCE doors are locked, please call the game administrator to gain access.  Once the team has been unloaded, the bus will remain parked on the side of the building. If a second bus is on-site for a doubleheader, it will be parallel parked on the venue's exit road. 
   
Visiting Team Locker Room/Bench 
A key to the visiting team's locker room will be hanging in the door upon your arrival to Lynn Cottrell Arena. Please use to secure the locker room during the times it is vacated and please make sure to leave the key before departing the facility. The visiting team will occupy the bench on the arena’s north end (to the right of the game operations table when facing).
 
Pregame Timing
Game timing will follow the NCAA Division II Championships administration protocols. The videoboards countdown includes an extra five minutes of time to allow the pregame announcements, starting lineups and the National Anthem to occur before the posted start time, unless it is the second game of a doubleheader and the countdown is until the start of pregame announcements. The visiting team’s starting lineups will be announced first numerically immediately following the National Anthem. The second game of a doubleheader will start either 1) at officially published game time, or 2) 30:00 after the court has been cleared following the first game – whichever allows for a longer warm up for the second game. 

Halftime
Halftime will be 15:00 minutes long. Any halftime promotions will be completed and the floor cleared with a minimum of 5:00 remaining on the clock.

National Anthem(s)
As one of six senior military colleges in the country, UNG is proud to have the National Anthem played/sung before ALL games, including the second game of a doubleheader. The National Anthem will occur immediately after the welcome announcement and will be followed the starting lineups, visitors first. If the Colors are presented in person by UNG’s Boar’s Head Brigade Color Guard, everyone is asked to remain at attention until the Colors have marched off the arena floor.

NCAA Media Timeouts (WOMEN)
• Each team will have three (3) 30-second timeouts and one (1) 60-second timeout. Of the four total timeouts, all four carry over to the second half.
• Media timeouts are to be taken at the first dead ball under the 5-minute mark in each quarter. The clock must be under 5 minutes for the media timeout to take place.
• When a team calls a timeout prior to the scheduled media timeout, or calls a timeout under the 5-minute mark when there has been no stoppage in play, the timeout shall be charged to the team and become that quarter's media timeout.
• The first called timeout of the second half will become an additional media timeout. This does not replace the 5-minute media timeout in the period in which it is called.
• Teams will be given one (1) additional 30-second timeout for each overtime period in addition to any unused timeouts.

NCAA Media Timeouts (MEN)
• Each team will have three (3) 30-second timeouts and one (1) 60-second timeout. Only two (2) of the 30-second timeouts may be carried over into the second half.
• Media timeouts are to be taken at the first dead ball at the 16, 12, 8 and 4-minute marks of each half. The clock must be under or at these marks in order for the media timeout to take place.
• The first requested timeout by either team in the second half shall become a media timeout.
• Media timeouts are to be 75 seconds in length. The first horn shall sound at the 60-second mark and the second horn at the 75- second mark.
• If a team calls a timeout 30 seconds or less before a scheduled media timeout or after the 16, 12, 8 and 4-minute marks when there have been no stoppages in play, that called timeout will become the scheduled media timeout. This rule does not apply to the first called timeout of the second half, which shall still become a full media timeout.
• In each overtime, each team is given one (1) additional 30-second timeout in addition to any that have not been used in regulation or any previous overtime periods. There are no scheduled media timeouts in overtime.

NCAA Courtside Officials' Video Replay
• When a replay review occurs before the 5-minute mark in a quarter and prior to the quarter’s electronic media timeout, the replay review triggers that quarter’s electronic-media timeout. The replay review will be conducted concurrently with the electronic-media timeout.
• The first replay review or team-called timeout of the second half will trigger the second half electronic-media timeout. This timeout does not replace the 5-minute media timeout in the quarter in which it is called. The replay review will be conducted concurrently with the electronic-media timeout.
• When the replay review is completed before the end of the electronic-media timeout, substitutes must report prior to the first warning horn. When the replay review is completed after the end of the electronic media timeout, once the officials have finished any communication with the scorer/timer, the timer shall be instructed to sound the horn followed by a second horn 15 seconds later. Any substitute permitted to enter the game by rule must report prior to the final horn.