After defeating France, China women's basketball team returned to the World Cup semi-finals after 28 years. What are the differences between the rules of women's basketball and men's basketball?

In fact, there was a time when the rules of women's basketball match were different from those of men's basketball match. However, since the 1960s, the rules of men's and women's basketball matches are basically the same. The only difference is that the ball used in the women's basketball game is smaller.

In fact, the women's basketball team began to rise from 1894. 1894 women's basketball competition rules are very different from now. At that time, a team needed nine people to play at the same time, three forwards, three defenders and three centers. At the same time, players in different positions must be in their own factories and cannot cross regions. For example, forwards can only pass or shoot in their own forward area. The defender can only defend in his own area, and after grabbing the offensive rebound, he must pass it directly to the striker through the center. If he attacks himself, it is illegal. At that time, there were always four quarters in the game, but each quarter was only 8 minutes. During the whole game, each team can only call two timeouts. In addition, each player held the ball for a short time, which could not exceed three seconds.

1930 changed the rules of women's basketball competition, and the competition time was also 4, but the rule of 10 seconds 3 was added, and a 5-minute tiebreaker was added, which was actually the same as the rules of men's basketball competition at that time.

By the time of 1948, the rules of the women's basketball game have been changed. At this time, the number of women's basketball games was reduced to five, and the same venue as the men's basketball game was used.

By 1960, the rules of women's games were basically the same as those of men's games. The only difference was that the basketball used by women's basketball was smaller, which has continued until now.