What is the diameter of a standard basketball hoop in inches?
18 inches
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A regulation basketball hoop has an inner diameter of 18 inches — roughly twice the diameter of a standard men's basketball (about 9.4 inches). That means two basketballs could nearly fit through the rim side by side.
This answer is checked against Wikipedia — Basket (basketball).
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- 16 inches - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
- 18 inches - correct answer.
- 20 inches - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
- 22 inches - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
18 inches is the one to remember. A regulation basketball hoop has an inner diameter of 18 inches — roughly twice the diameter of a standard men's basketball (about 9.4 inches). The height of a basketball hoop — 10 feet — was set by James Naismith when he nailed a peach basket to a gymnasium balcony in 1891 and has never been changed.
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Sources: Wikipedia — Basket (basketball)