Five on five intramural basketball has taken off at the Dixon Center. Games are played twice a week starting at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Each game runs for two 15-minute halves.
Kate Corcoran, facilities director at the Dixon Center said, “In the course of the season, everyone plays each other once, then we have playoffs.”
Since two or three games are played in one night, the court is split into two sections. Multiple teams can play at once, and players may have the opportunity to get in shape for their challengers.
Corcoran said, “All teams and players are required to come. If they don’t show up, then they have to forfeit.”
There are eight teams in the league and approximately 60 male players in all. The teams are the Scrappers, the Nice Guys, the Angry Beavers, Team Magnum, Birdmen, The Franchise, No Name, and The Rock.
Sophomore Brian Ginter, of the Angry Beavers, said, “Intramurals keeps you in shape. I just play for fun.”
The Angry Beavers were last year’s champions and they would like to repeat. Ginter said, “We’re back and we’re angry. We want to win again.”
All of the players who are signed up to play in the intramurals are non-basketball players. Corcoran said, “It would be an unfair advantage if basketball players play. No basketball players are allowed in this league.”
Lauren Budweg, a freshman, women’s basketball player said, “I think the basketball players would dominate the league.”
Basketball players are valuable to the school teams and they could also get injured having a meaningless game of fun. Budweg said, “Plus a basketball player could get injured playing in intramurals and that could hurt the school’s team, which is who he or she is really playing for.”
There were no women involved in intramural basketball. Corcoran said, “We ran the intramurals for both. It was marketed towards everybody. Only men came out. There was probably no interest on the women’s part.”
Budweg said, “I actually heard that some girls signed up, but not enough for a league. But if Kate [Corcoran] said that no one has interest, then she is right.”
The intramural basketball league offers students a chance to come out to enjoy themselves and have a friendly game of basketball. There are no hard feelings in intramurals, just plain old fun.