The first women’s college basketball player to dunk in a game was Georgeann Wells. The West Virginia center threw down a right-handed jam on WVU’s home turf to take an 85-50 lead with just ...

— Merrimack Men’s Basketball (@MerrimackMBB) February 9, 2024 Bringing down the hoop like that brings to mind memories of when Shaquille O’Neal snapped the entire backboard off its stanchion ...

Hansel Emmanuel First College Points and Dunk for Northwestern State 12-10-22 by AC Hoops on YouTube In high school, Emmanuel put on a display you literally had to see to believe, CBS DFW reported ...

Duke Blue Devils star Cooper Flagg is projected to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, and throughout the NCAA Tournament, he has only solidified his status as the best player in the class.

That title belongs to the 6-foot-10 Steve Novak, a 3-point marksman who played from 2006 to 2017, ran for 5,657 NBA minutes (more than eight Ken Burns “Civil War” viewings) and never dunked.

Brittney Griner became the first player to dunk in the Unrivaled basketball league, a feat she accomplished with Lisa Leslie, who scored the first dunk in WNBA history, in attendance.

Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel is the first NCAA Division III women’s basketball player with one arm to score a field goal in a collegiate game.

They literally and figuratively elevate basketball and are at the heart of “Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk,” a must-read jam of a book by Philadelphia ...