(06-26-2017 08:36 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  3 on 3 basketball is growing in popularity. There is a new 3 on 3 league made up of mostly retired NBA players called the Big3 that premiered this past weekend with a bang & it will make its debut at the 2020 Olympics. How soon will it make its way to the NCAA?

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/103184926/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nba.com/amp/league/article/2017/06/09/ioc-votes-include-3-3-basketball-2020-tokyo-olympics

(06-26-2017 08:42 AM)Hallcity Wrote:  

(06-26-2017 08:36 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  3 on 3 basketball is growing in popularity. There is a new 3 on 3 league made up of mostly retired NBA players called the Big3 that premiered this past weekend with a bang & it will make its debut at the 2020 Olympics. How soon will it make its way to the NCAA?

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/103184926/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nba.com/amp/league/article/2017/06/09/ioc-votes-include-3-3-basketball-2020-tokyo-olympics

I'd love to see it as an NCAA sport during the summer.

(06-26-2017 10:01 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  I can't see it as anything more than a club sport at the college level. It is a players game. It is fun to play because it is easier to get 3 or 4 guys together and each player is more involved. As a spectator sport, the only fun is watching some former great NBA/college players. That will get old very quickly.

(06-26-2017 06:58 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-26-2017 10:01 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  I can't see it as anything more than a club sport at the college level. It is a players game. It is fun to play because it is easier to get 3 or 4 guys together and each player is more involved. As a spectator sport, the only fun is watching some former great NBA/college players. That will get old very quickly.

Not to worry. They'll all be on the disabled list within a couple of months.

(06-26-2017 09:51 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  It could offer a cheap alternative to help Title IX issues. Add 7 scholarships for women, maybe replace a more expensive sport like rowing.

(06-26-2017 09:49 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(06-26-2017 09:51 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  It could offer a cheap alternative to help Title IX issues. Add 7 scholarships for women, maybe replace a more expensive sport like rowing.

Rowing is actually one of the least expensive Olympic sports, and with a scholarship limit of 20 it goes a long way to equaling the 85 of football.

(06-27-2017 10:54 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  

(06-26-2017 09:49 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(06-26-2017 09:51 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  It could offer a cheap alternative to help Title IX issues. Add 7 scholarships for women, maybe replace a more expensive sport like rowing.

Rowing is actually one of the least expensive Olympic sports, and with a scholarship limit of 20 it goes a long way to equaling the 85 of football.

Let me rephrase it then. It would be a cheap sport to add & would be easily available unlike rowing where you have to have access to water. 3 on 3 can be played anywhere where you have half of a basketball court, indoors or out. It could also be used to help with the universities basketball team as you could play your freshman to give them additional playing time in which they might not ordinarily get.

(06-27-2017 05:20 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  Ahhh ... this is a gimmick, and the popularity will wear off. It's only been one night.

I don't think 3-on-3 will have the staying power of the Arena Football League, which also benefited from operating in the slowest part of the sports calendar.

And there's no way schools start thinking about expanding their sports offerings to include this. Let alone allow the kids they signed to play full court basketball to play this game. Just won't happen.

(06-27-2017 08:23 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 05:20 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  Ahhh ... this is a gimmick, and the popularity will wear off. It's only been one night.

I don't think 3-on-3 will have the staying power of the Arena Football League, which also benefited from operating in the slowest part of the sports calendar.

And there's no way schools start thinking about expanding their sports offerings to include this. Let alone allow the kids they signed to play full court basketball to play this game. Just won't happen.

I think I heard CNN reorters say that this will be an olympic event, as soon as the 2020 olympics. If thats the case then you can bet it will be an event that colleges will sponsor.

(06-28-2017 07:40 AM)H.U.S.T.L.E. Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 08:23 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 05:20 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  Ahhh ... this is a gimmick, and the popularity will wear off. It's only been one night.

I don't think 3-on-3 will have the staying power of the Arena Football League, which also benefited from operating in the slowest part of the sports calendar.

And there's no way schools start thinking about expanding their sports offerings to include this. Let alone allow the kids they signed to play full court basketball to play this game. Just won't happen.

I think I heard CNN reorters say that this will be an olympic event, as soon as the 2020 olympics. If thats the case then you can bet it will be an event that colleges will sponsor.

Eh, I don't think it being an Olympic event makes much of a difference.

Badminton, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Judo, and Boxing are longtime Olympic events that are not NCAA-sponsored sports. They're adding skateboarding in 2020 too, but I don't think that makes a difference to the NCAA.

I don't see 3-on-3 basketball becoming viable because I'm not sure it can be a revenue-generating sport for the NCAA. The Big 3 is relying on retired NBA players to sell its product and the NCAA will be lacking the starpower needed to market a 3-on-3 product. I also highly doubt that 5-star athletes will be lining up to play 3-on-3 when they'll end up making their money in a completely different setting (full court, 5-on-5).

Another thing to consider - the big names in college basketball are really the coaches, and I don't think you'll convince any of them that 3-on-3 is worth their time.

Also, when in the NCAA calendar does it make sense to show 3-on-3 basketball? All the oxygen in the fall is taken up by football, the winter is dominated by basketball, and baseball & softball do quite well in the spring. I'm not sure there's a natural window for 3-on-3 basketball that makes a ton of sense.

(06-28-2017 07:40 AM)H.U.S.T.L.E. Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 08:23 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 05:20 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  Ahhh ... this is a gimmick, and the popularity will wear off. It's only been one night.

I don't think 3-on-3 will have the staying power of the Arena Football League, which also benefited from operating in the slowest part of the sports calendar.

And there's no way schools start thinking about expanding their sports offerings to include this. Let alone allow the kids they signed to play full court basketball to play this game. Just won't happen.

I think I heard CNN reorters say that this will be an olympic event, as soon as the 2020 olympics. If thats the case then you can bet it will be an event that colleges will sponsor.

Eh, I don't think it being an Olympic event makes much of a difference.

Badminton, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Judo, and Boxing are longtime Olympic events that are not NCAA-sponsored sports. They're adding skateboarding in 2020 too, but I don't think that makes a difference to the NCAA.

I don't see 3-on-3 basketball becoming viable because I'm not sure it can be a revenue-generating sport for the NCAA. The Big 3 is relying on retired NBA players to sell its product and the NCAA will be lacking the starpower needed to market a 3-on-3 product. I also highly doubt that 5-star athletes will be lining up to play 3-on-3 when they'll end up making their money in a completely different setting (full court, 5-on-5).

Another thing to consider - the big names in college basketball are really the coaches, and I don't think you'll convince any of them that 3-on-3 is worth their time.

Also, when in the NCAA calendar does it make sense to show 3-on-3 basketball? All the oxygen in the fall is taken up by football, the winter is dominated by basketball, and baseball & softball do quite well in the spring. I'm not sure there's a natural window for 3-on-3 basketball that makes a ton of sense.

(06-30-2017 08:21 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-28-2017 07:40 AM)H.U.S.T.L.E. Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 08:23 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(06-27-2017 05:20 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  Ahhh ... this is a gimmick, and the popularity will wear off. It's only been one night.

I don't think 3-on-3 will have the staying power of the Arena Football League, which also benefited from operating in the slowest part of the sports calendar.

And there's no way schools start thinking about expanding their sports offerings to include this. Let alone allow the kids they signed to play full court basketball to play this game. Just won't happen.

I think I heard CNN reorters say that this will be an olympic event, as soon as the 2020 olympics. If thats the case then you can bet it will be an event that colleges will sponsor.

Eh, I don't think it being an Olympic event makes much of a difference.

Badminton, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Judo, and Boxing are longtime Olympic events that are not NCAA-sponsored sports. They're adding skateboarding in 2020 too, but I don't think that makes a difference to the NCAA.

I don't see 3-on-3 basketball becoming viable because I'm not sure it can be a revenue-generating sport for the NCAA. The Big 3 is relying on retired NBA players to sell its product and the NCAA will be lacking the starpower needed to market a 3-on-3 product. I also highly doubt that 5-star athletes will be lining up to play 3-on-3 when they'll end up making their money in a completely different setting (full court, 5-on-5).

Another thing to consider - the big names in college basketball are really the coaches, and I don't think you'll convince any of them that 3-on-3 is worth their time.

Also, when in the NCAA calendar does it make sense to show 3-on-3 basketball? All the oxygen in the fall is taken up by football, the winter is dominated by basketball, and baseball & softball do quite well in the spring. I'm not sure there's a natural window for 3-on-3 basketball that makes a ton of sense.

^ This.

I don't see this becoming an NCAA sport, and I don't think it will involve the NBA or retired NBA players. But there could be a place for it on the sports calendar in the summer, when its only real competition will come from tennis and golf. And that wouldn't be real competition for the target audience for 3-on-3.

3-on-3 is at its core an urban playground game. These leagues have existed for a long time, and have their own local legends that people come out to watch. These fans aren't watching golf in the summer. And the players aren't going to Kentucky or the Lakers. But the games they play are entertaining, and fit into short attention spans.