Talk:Variations of basketball

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A couple of things...

A common variation of 21 not listed is the "tip" rule which resets a player's score to 0 if his shot is missed and another player "tips" in the rebound, i.e. taps the rebound in before his feet touch the ground.

There are a number of other variations that could be listed:

Knockout/Machine Gun/Lightning - played with 2 basketballs (I think there's a stub for Knockout)

Around the World (a shooting contest from different spots on the floor)

Money in the Bank (a pressure free throw shooting contest - each consecutive free throw made puts a point in the bank, the contestant that breaks the streak gets all of the points, whoever gets to a predetermined number of points is eliminated)

Poison (don't know the exact rules)

PK9 23:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SMU (?)

The following was cut & pasted from the SMU disambiguation page:

SMU is also the name of a basketball game named after St. Mary's University. It is a free for all game usually played by atleast 3 people but sometimes is played with two. When someone scores a basket they get two points and go to the foul line to take shots worth one point. If you make three foul shots in a row you check up the ball and try to score again. It is played until someone gets to 21 points but if you go over 21 your score is set back to 13. "Tips" are also a part of the game, that is wear someone tips in a missed shot by someone else and that persons score is set back to zero. This game is popular in Eastern Canada and in differant places the rules are usually slightly tweaked. e.g. being eliminated when tipped at zero, and having to clear the ball. Other similar basketball games include: 21, horse, face, cuteye and 101.

I don't know whether to include it on here so I pasted to this discussion page instead just to be safe.