Trivia: What were the first basketball hoops made of?
Trash cans
Peach baskets
Chicken wire
Fishing nets
The correct answer is Peach baskets
So why is this answer correct? : When James Naismith needed a sport to keep students active during the winter, he envisioned a game where a ball would be thrown in an arc into some sort of goal. Naismith asked the school superintendent for 18-inch square boxes, but instead received peach baskets. Naismith subsequently called his new game “basket-ball.”