My mom played in the Danish women’s league for a long time and won championships there. My parents never forced me to play, never pushed me in that direction.

Basketball shoes are generally made up of rubber, leather and synthetic materials. While brothers Ikenna and Osinachi Smart were growing up in Nigeria, they might as well have been made of gold.

When the NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee gathered in May 2015, it knew the game needed some help.

Each spring is a new adventure for the NCAA travel staff, who are charged with moving not only 20,000 Division I men’s and women’s basketball players, coaches, staff, band members and cheerleaders throughout the country, but also competitors and coaches for the other NCAA spring championships.

A look back on iconic movie moments for hoops.

In this moment between reforming college basketball and figuring out what it needs next, we turned to decorated coaches, top leaders and iconic figures to ask what the game means to them.