Two international centers will clash under the basket during the N.C.A.A.’s Final Four. If you are following the Final Four this weekend, you’ll most-likely be hearing about UConn’s Hasheem Thabeet and Michigan State’s Goran Suton. Thabeet is a happy-go-lucky, shot-blocking UConn center that has improved dramatically over the last three years, and Suton is the [...]

Our site has been receiving a lot of traffic for people searching for a “college player that two-hand dunked and flipped over.“  All of those searchers were sent to our video of Belgian Syracuse player Kristof Ongenaet doing just that in the Big East championship. Though Ongenaet’s shocking fall after a dunk is a worthy [...]

With the 64 teams matched up, March Madness is less than 12 hours away.  And with that, Interbasket has collected the names of the top ten international players in this year’s field (discuss). It’s a shame that the St. Mary’s Gaels and the Viriginia Tech Hokies didn’t make the tournament, that forced us to leave [...]

Doğuş Balbay (pronounced Doh-oosh Ball-ba) is a Turkish national and starting point guard for the University of Texas Longhorns. Born and raised in Istanbul, Balbay (discuss) is a 6-0 point guard with great athletic ability, speed, defensive intensity, and a Manu-Ginobili-esque way of getting into the lane. It hasn’t been an easy road for Balbay [...]

Yikes, here’s another scary basketball fall on a fast break (see Fernandez-Ariza video from last week or check out this dunk/backflip from Adam Waddell of Wyoming) During today’s Big East Championship game between Syracuse and Louisville, Syracuse senior forward from Ghent, Belgium, Kristof Ongenaet found himself at the head of the pack when he took [...]

In a record-breaking game for the ages, #16 Syracuse University defeated the #3 University of Connecticut last night 127-117  record six overtimes. Syracuse won the game despite never holding a single lead until the sixth and final overtime.  Amazing. The Big East tournament game was the first six overtime game since 1955 and lasted 3 [...]

Pau Gasol continues to have his best NBA season, as a second banana to Kobe Bryant.  Last night the 7-0 forward has game-high 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers over the San Antonio Spurs 102-95. The Euroleague’s Elite Eight are set with Barcelona taking on TAU Ceramica, CSKA Moscow vs. [...]