Since James Naismith’s fateful decision to hang a peach basket on the wall at a YMCA training school in western Massachusetts in 1891, basketball has been a quintessentially American sport. For fans ...

With a desire to bring back a free-flowing, offensive-oriented, fundamentally sound brand of play, women’s basketball stakeholders set sail a few years ago in search of those seemingly lost components ...

Free-throw and foul situations in high school basketball will look different for the 2023-24 season. The one-and-one free throw has been eliminated and foul limits will reset after each quarter, the ...

The NCAA men's basketball rules committee is convening over the next three days in Indianapolis to review 13 possible rule changes. A few are expected to be formally recommended by week's end, and if ...

At nearly all levels of basketball, flopping has become part of the game. And the folks who make the rules are trying to stop it. A year ago, the NCAA announced that men’s college basketball would ...

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will debut the 3v3 style of basketball in the quadrennial competition this summer. The FIBA (International Basketball Committee) has set rules for this style of the sport, and ...

College athletics -- specifically college basketball -- is getting a significant rulebook makeover. And the FBI's investigation into the sport's crooked recruiting practices is primarily why. The NCAA ...

The National Federation of State High School Associations introduced some rule changes to high school basketball for the 2025-26 season. The NFHS Board of Directors approved these modifications upon ...

Bruce Pearl had the cookout. Kelvin Sampson had all the phone calls. Will Wade made the “strong-ass” offer. Rick Pitino was caught up in that same FBI investigation, which alleged bribes to recruits.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 03: A detail of the orginal 1891 copy of the rules of “Basket Ball” are seen at Sotheby’s auction house December 3, 2010 in New York City. Basketball was invented by American ...

Julian Zugazagoitia, left, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Sarah Rowland; Suzanne Deal Booth; and David Booth, from left, smile after the unveiling of James Naismith's original rule of ...