3The purpose of this study was of two-fold: first, to estimate the back strength of inter-university basketball players and, second, to search the correlation of it with selected anthropometric variables and performance tests. To serve this purpose, a total of thirteen anthropometric variables, viz. height, weight, BMI, percent body fat, percent lean body mass, biceps and triceps skinfolds, humerus and femur biepicondylar diameters, knee height, femur length, hip circumference and total leg length, and back strength; and three performance tests, viz. vertical jump, sit and reach and standing broad jump were measured on purposely selected 85 inter-university hockey players (44 male and 41 female) aged 18–25 years collected from Inter-university Championship organized in Amritsar and Chandigarh, India. Results indicated significant sex differences in all the variables between them. In conclusion, it may be stated that back strength had some strong positive correlations (p< 0.01) with all the variables studied in elite Indian basketball players.
