Sentence examples for basketball itself from inspiring English sources

More broadly, Noel's injury might be a blow to the institution of college basketball itself.

And as Georgetown and Syracuse chase a first-place Pittsburgh team short on elite talent but long on cohesiveness and toughness, the conference has emerged as a reflection of college basketball itself.

Since his last tour of duty in New York, much besides his uniform has changed: his jumper, his hair style (endlessly), and his love for basketball itself, which had begun to wane before a rejuvenating stint with the Charlotte Hornets.

But the real explanation might be just be that at the center of it, most college-basketball players are about as interesting as any young athlete who's done little more in life than go to practice every day — and that the game of college basketball itself suffers from some pretty notable deficiencies.

The basketball itself is a dominating object," he tells us.

The basketball itself is nine inches in diameter, about the same size as a NBA regulation ball.

To that end, college basketball finds itself in something of a quandary.

The arena is now dry, but during the flood the basketball court itself was floating on four feet of water.

So it is that college basketball finds itself with a center-stage opportunity, roughly five weeks before March Madness turns every workplace with a copying machine into a gambling den.

College basketball lends itself particularly well to sports junkies, due to the abundance of teams, playing multiple days a week, where leads shy of 30 points are slight.

Not many people watching the Final Four games of the men's NCAA tournament this weekend will spend a second thinking about the basketball court itself.