Commonwealth Games
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Basketball
Trivia
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Basketball appears for the first time in a Commonwealth Games program in Melbourne 2006.
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See also information about basketball at the Olympic Games.
About
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Basketball is a popular team sport within the Commonwealth
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Basketball is a fast, non-contact sport, with five players from each team on the court at any one time. For more information about the sport of Basketball, go here.
Competition
- There is a competition for both men and women teams, consisting of two pools of four teams playing each other in a round-robin style tournament, before the two leading teams in each pool advance to the finals.
