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2. Mystery solved: Why the NCAA tournament basketballs look ...

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   While the Evo NXT balls were approved for college teams this season, NCAA rules allow home teams to choose the brand and model of basketball they use. Teams use anything from Nike, to Adidas, to ...

3. Why do NCAA teams cut down the net after big wins? - AOL

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   The champion of each region, and ultimately the champion of the entire tournament, gets to partake in the ritual of cutting the net away from the sport's iconic orange hoop so players can take a ...

4. Basket (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   Typical professional hoop (left) with backboard (right) The basket or hoop is a piece of basketball equipment, consisting of the rim and net. It hangs from the backboard. The first basket was a peach basket installed by James Naismith. [1] The bottom was eventually cut out of the basket, and the basket was eventually replaced with the metal rim ...

5. Backboard (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   It is usually rectangular as used in NBA, NCAA and international basketball. In recreational environments, a backboard may be oval or a fan-shape, particularly in non-professional games. The top of the hoop is 10 feet (3.05 m) above the ground. Regulation backboards are 6 feet (1.83 m) wide by 3.5 feet (1.07 m) tall.

6. List of nicknames in basketball - Wikipedia

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   Utah Utes men's basketball team, 1943–44 – "Blitz Kids" (freshmen Arnie Ferrin, Herb Wilkinson, Wat Misaka, Bob Lewis, Dick Smuin, Bill Kastlic and sophomore Fred Sheffield) [226] Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball in the late 1940s – "Fabulous Five" [ 227 ] ( Alex Groza , Ralph Beard , Wallace Jones , Cliff Barker and Ken Rollins ).

7. Why Ole Miss football players dunking on a basketball hoop ...

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   Kiffin even brought the hoop inside Ole Miss' team meeting room to spice things up at preseason practice. He pitted offensive coaches against defensive coaches in a spirited 2-on-2 game at the ...

8. Basketball (ball) - Wikipedia

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   The TEN basketball is the official ball of the Amateur Athletic Union and the "Gus Macker", the largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the United States. [citation needed] Nike: Nike had the contract to produce balls for the Euroleague Basketball (operators of the EuroLeague and the EuroCup) from 2007 [10] until 2012

9. Basketball - Wikipedia

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   Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...