Basketball is a team sport. Two teams of five players each try to score by shooting a ball through a hoop elevated 10 feet above the ground. The game is played on a rectangula… See more

When a team makes a basket, they score two points and the ball goes to the other team. If a basket, or field goal, is made outside of the three-point arc, then that basket is w… See more

Each game is divided into sections, and all levels have two halves. In college, each half is twenty minutes long. In high school and below, the halves are divided into eight (and somet… See more

Also, each team is assigned a basket or goalto defend. This means that the other basket is their scoring basket. At halftime, the teams switch goals. The game begins with one pl… See more