IT MAY BE a new name but Basketball Ireland promises the same excitement and more when the IBA changes its title at an Extraordinary General Meeting this autumn.

IT SEEMED the most natural thing in the world that I should have to look up to the chief executive of the Irish Basketball Association — basketball tends to attract a taller race of people.

Gerry Fitzpatrick has been appointed head coach of the Irish senior men's basketball team following the decision of Bill Dooley to return to the United States in August.