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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 ...
The BFI will launch and control school and college leagues with assistance from IMG. IMG Reliance will also construct academies in India in line with the IMG Florida sports academy. In July, coaches from Florida came to India to select 8 boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 15 to take to the US on a scholarship. The first batch was ...
India had two wins and finished 3 places higher (11th) in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship than in 2011. [20] In 2014, the Young Cagers (as team India is often nicknamed) won the Lusofonia games with wins over Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and Angola in the gold medal game. This was Team India's first title ever in a non-Asian competition.
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
The India men's national 3x3 team, is controlled by the Basketball Federation of India and represents India in international 3x3 men's basketball competitions. [1] [2 ...
The Kanteerava Indoor Stadium hosted the Finals of the inaugural season in 2022–23.. The INBL was founded in 2021. [1] [2] The league was granted a five-year license by the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) to run the competition and also help promote the 3x3 version of the game. [1]
The India men's national under-16 basketball team is a national basketball team of India, administered by the Basketball Federation of India. [2] [3] It represents the country in men's international under-16 basketball competitions. The best performance of the team so far is the 5th place at the 2022 FIBA Under-16 Asian Championship. [4] [5]
BFI is involved in organizing training camps and national tournaments, and preparing Indian teams for both men's and women's international competitions in various age categories. First national level tournaments were organized in 1934. The India national basketball team became a member of FIBA in 1936. The governing body was formed in 1950.