Basketball Court Dimensions:
From the NBA to your High School Court

Basketball court dimensions can vary dramatically depending on the league you play in - but while every league decides which set of dimensions it will use, there are only a few sources of court dimensions to choose from.

Especially if you are coaching youth sports for the first time, or at least, coaching basketball for the first time, you'll want to know the dimensions of the court your team will be playing on. A quick web search will turn up lots of diagrams - I've included here the most often used diagrams. The first diagram below is the most inclusive diagram I've found so far - it includes dimensions for all of the major basketball organizations.

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All Court Types:
FIBA (International) Court Dimensions:
NCAA Court Dimensions:
NBA Court Dimensions:
High School Court Dimensions:

Occasionally your league may change its rules - I know I've coached in a league that started out using FIBA dimensions, but then modified it's court when it felt too much emphasis was being placed on relatively easy-to-make three pointers. It adopted the NBA three point line to make the three pointer more challenging.

So it's good to have access to the dimensions of different courts, just in case you need them.