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The list of Indian basketball players abroad, committing to high schools and colleges as student-athletes, is steadily growing. This is both a heartening as well as disconcerting sign. It shows that India’s upcoming basketball talent is on par with the rest of the world. More importantly, it brings these players under the radar of top […]

Pune: Indian college baller Yousuf Sayyed made history by scoring 80 points in a single game. This is arguably the second highest ever by an Indian basketball player at any level (male or female). The accomplishment came in the finals of ‘Vedant’, the annual inter-collegiate youth festival organised by BJ Government Medical College, Pune. In […]

The 2021 FIBA Women’s Asia Cup will see an Indian roster that comprises seven players from Indian Railways and nine players from South India. The only players not from down South are Shireen Limaye (Maharashtra), Vaishnavi Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) & Madhu Kumari (Delhi). *Note: For the purpose of this enumeration, Sruthi Arvind (a Keralite who […]