SCRANTON \u2014 The University’s spring intramural basketball season is underway.<\/p>\n
Basketball is one of Scranton\u2019s most popular intramural sports. The league features 30 teams with five to 12 players each. Students display their basketball skills in a 40-minute, five-on-five full-court showdown. After six regular-season games between teams in their respective divisions, a single-elimination, win-or-go-home bracket based on the teams\u2019 standings is played to declare the champion.<\/p>\n
Playing intramural basketball on a college campus isn\u2019t comparable to gathering friends at a park. It\u2019s a chance for college students to continue their love for the game of basketball in a competitive, formal and high energy environment.<\/p>\n
DJ Gray, junior business administration major at the University, said intramural basketball gives him the opportunity to keep playing the sport he grew up on.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Intramural basketball) means coming together to play a sport so many of us love. I feel like most of us who come to a D3 school and know they won\u2019t play on the team, then intramural is a way for them to enjoy themselves and still play the game they love,\u201d Gray said.<\/p>\n
Playing intramural basketball isn\u2019t just exercise; it also gives students a new social life. Gray looks at intramural basketball as a way to get out of his comfort zone and make new friends through a similar interest \u2014 basketball.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favorite thing about it would be meeting new people for sure; I mean I know I’m not an extrovert at all, but I feel like with intramurals I\u2019m able to meet new people through sports,\u201d Gray said.<\/p>\n
With most students at the University taking multiple high-level classes, trying to graduate on time and fulfill the necessary courses for their major, many students go to intramural sports as a chance to break away.<\/p>\n
Philip Ostrosky, junior accounting major at the University, believes that intramural sports serve as a perfect opportunity to rewind from stress.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Intramural) basketball is a fun time to relax and unwind for the week. Just the perfect amount of competitiveness but also balanced so everybody can have fun,\u201d Ostrosky said.<\/p>\n
Events are scheduled Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Byron from 6 to 11 p.m. The $10 fee must be paid by the team captain prior to the beginning of the season. The winner of the spring intramural basketball championship will receive free custom intramural T-shirts for each player on the team, as well as an Instagram post on @scrantonrecsports.<\/p>\n
Byron Bums, led by seniors Ethan Nguyen and Anthony Santos, will attempt to win their third consecutive championship.<\/p>\n
Visit imleagues.com to join as a free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 The University’s spring intramural basketball season is underway. Basketball is one of Scranton\u2019s most popular intramural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-130648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}