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The Science of Basketball

As March Madness descends, here's a guide to choosing your NCAA bracket and technology that helps -- and harms -- today's pro and amateur basketballers

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Statistics, probability and NCAA's "March Madness"

How one computer scientist would pick his March Madness bracket

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Why You Can't Shoot the Same Foul Shot Twice

Repeated motions differ slightly because of the brain's planning mechanism and muscle contractions

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New Basketball Takes Bad Bounce

Players have complained about the NBA's new synthetic basketball. Now physicists agree with the players' gripes about the grip

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Basketball players beat sportswriters in this prediction game

Ballers can imagine the shooting motion of another player to predict whether a basketball shot is headed for nothing but net or will brick off the rim. The key to their trick may surprise you

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