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Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...
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 and net. [2] [3] [4] Today there are breakaway rims.
In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops, the goals were a pair of peach baskets: "When Mr. Stubbins brot up the peach baskets to the gym I secured them ...
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.
Dioceldo Sy of Ever Bilena became the Lady Bulldog's sports patron in 2011. [1] Sy in turn tapped Patrick Aquino as head coach in 2012. [2] The Sy-sponsored staff had to contend with the women's basketball in a landscape where the sport is viewed as a men's sport and the draw of more prestigious UAAP schools in player recruitment. [3]
Weather Woman (Japanese: お天気お姉さん, Hepburn: Otenki Onēsan), also known as Weather Report Girl, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsu Adachi. It was serialized in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from 1992 to 1994, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes.
Noelle Quinn (born January 3, 1985) is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). [1] Quinn played in the WNBA for Minnesota Lynx , Los Angeles Sparks , Washington Mystics , Phoenix Mercury , and the Storm.
The 2020–21 Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team represented Louisiana Tech University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.The team was led by fifth-year head coaches Brooke Stoehr & Scott Stoehr, and played their home games at the Thomas Assembly Center in Ruston, Louisiana as a member of Conference USA.