♦ The Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has set up the National basketball academy in collaboration with Corvuss American Academy in Mumbai. For a start, the Academy will run with 30 boys and 30 girls from the school. 

♦ The players in the academy will be free to represent their States in the State and national championships.

♦ Corvuss American Academy is now the second ‘National Basketball Academy’ of BFI, after Manipal University.