The length of a basketball game varies by both the level of play and sometimes the individual league.

 

Below are the standard lengths of basketball games at different levels:

 

NBA Game Time: 

Four 12 minute quarters. 

Total time: 48 minutes 

Overtime: 5 minutes

 

WNBA Game Time:  

Two 20-minute halves

Total game time: 40 minutes  for a total game time of forty minutes

Overtime: 5 minutes

 

NCAA Game Time: Two twenty-minute halves in men’s college games, while women’s college games have four ten-minute quarters

Overtime: 5 minutes

 

Highschool Basketball Game Time: Four eight-minute quarters, for a total of 32 mins. The real-time length of a high-school basketball game is approximately ninety minutes

 

Overtime: 4 minutes

 

FIBA Game Time: Four 10-minute quarters, for a total game time of 40 mins.

 

Overtime: 5 minutes

 

Time: 15 mins