Talk:Women's basketball

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A Page of Its Own
In spite of their shared history, women's basketball is distinct from men's; it has a different history, as well as its own competitions and regulations. If you believe a redirect is in order, please discuss here before making any changes. Thanks~ Deebki 13:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Similarity to netball
The early rules of womens' basketball are similar to netball. Are there still differences from the mens' game? (other than 6 players on the court instead of 5) Scott Gall 00:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I have been trying to update the Netball article. It seems like from what I've read so far, netball and women's basketball originally were the same thing, (netball for a long time was called "women's basketball"). Maybe some effort could be put towards working out when they split into two distinct sports. Matt 16:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps Netball = womens basketball was true in the UK and/or Europe, but I don't see it for the US. For one thing, Netball does not use a backboard which all forms of basketball have used in the US (as far as I know). There was a time that high school girls' basketball was similar to netball, with 6 a side teams, players restricted to which part of the court they could be in, etc., but I don't think this ever was called "netball". Although 6 a side BB was played until fairly recently as a high school girls sport in some states, in general, over time, the female version of basketball became more and more like the male version. At the high school level, the only difference is the female ball is slightly smaller than a male ball. There are a few more differences at the college level (30 second vs 35 second shot clock, lack of 10 second backcourt rule for women) but other than those few, it is the same game. Wschart (talk) 20:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I added in the fact that women's college basketball uses a shorter 3 point line, as well as the shot clock and 10 second rule differeces. 173.22.149.127 (talk) 12:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I think we need to change the info about the 3 point line. NCAA has gone to one line only, from visual inspection of BB courts. Wschart (talk) 21:10, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Possibly also need to update re the implementation of 10 minute quarters for NCAA women's basketball. Wschart (talk) 17:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Organization needed
This article is poorly organized. I made some first steps to try to clean this up, but more work is needed.--Patzer42 18:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I've been working on cleaning up this page, but it still needs a lot of work. Specifically I think the 'recent history' and 'time line' sections need more attention. Are there any basketball historians out there who can help? 4.249.228.49 (talk) 16:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Article organisation
The article feels a bit disorganised and American centric. I'm going to do some re-organising of sections in order to try to make the article more coherent and improve the flow. --LauraHale (talk) 07:15, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Title IX
I've moved the Title IX section to the American section. I don't think it fits quite right there. It probably needs to be integrated into a general history section and may warrant its own section... but yeah, for the moment, I relocated it. Please feel free to relocate it back. --LauraHale (talk) 08:38, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

University basketball
The history of university basketball has issues similiar to Title IX in that it can belong in multiple areas. I've temporarily put it in the university section. The history of women's university basketball in the USA as it pertains to the greater history of women's basketball should probably be written into the general section. --LauraHale (talk) 08:43, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Should this section be retitled "College"? It deals exclusively with the sport in the US, and no one in the US uses the term "University" in the context of intercollegiate athletics. Hence the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Wschart (talk) 21:38, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Metric or imperial? British English or American English?
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this article should be in imperial or metric measurements? Or British or American English? This would be useful for consistent formatting going forward. --LauraHale (talk) 08:56, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Use both measurements, of course! --80.101.191.11 (talk) 00:09, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

See also???
The hat reference at the top of the article, "For the ball sport played in the Commonwealth previously known as "women's basketball", see netball" may be a bit overstated. It has been at least 40 years since netball was called "women's basketball" in the Commonwealth nations. I suggest that this cross reference be removed as misleading in suggesting a recent nomenclature change. Racepacket (talk) 09:12, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support I suggest removing the netball section all together, as far as I know netball was never commonly called 'women's basketball'. Androids101 (talk) 12:38, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Netball was commonly known as women's basketball as both the Australian and New Zealand national organisations were called women's basketball associations up until 1970. The usage of women's basketball still continues in a number of places around the commonwealth and foreign words for the sport are based on that name. Its usage isn't what it once was but it is a valid disambiguation and the game shares similar origins. --LauraHale (talk) 21:15, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Feedback requested on the best way to expand coverage of the history of women's basketball
I would like to expand the coverage of women's basketball history.

There seem to be three logical places for coverage of the history (and I'll add a fourth)
 * 1) Women's basketball
 * 2) Basketball
 * 3) History of basketball

The first has an existing section on history, the second has an existing section on Women's basketball, which is primarily a history, while the third, oddly has no mention of women.

My initial thought that a comprehensive discussion of the history belongs naturally in the History of basketball article, then incorporate the highlights into the two other articles, possibly using partial transclusion. However, I am not completely wedded to this idea and would like some feedback. In particular, as I look at the structure of the article, it isn't obvious how to integrated the material cleanly. One other option is to write a new article called History of basketball, with expanded coverage of history, and a subset included in the Women's basketball article. However, big chunks of the current article are history, such as the Title IX section, not sure how that should be handled.

Yet another option is to simply expand the Women's basketball article with more history, and only when the article becomes unwieldy, do a split. If that makes sense, we'll have to discuss how much belong in the History of basketball article

I would also like to add a time line to the history. I think a complete time line deserves its own article, possibly modeled after Timeline of golf history (1945–1999), then bring an abbreviated version, the highlights, into the history article. -- SPhilbrick (Talk)  22:03, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I would say create a History of Women's Basketball article if necessary. There's already a History of women's cricket article after all. --Jtalledo (talk) 23:15, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

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