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Int J Sports Med 2020; 41(04): 242-247
DOI: 10.1055/a-1073-7941
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Total and Regional Body Composition of NCAA Division I Collegiate Basketball Athletes

Christiana J. Raymond-Pope
1   School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
,
Anna L. Solfest
1   School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
,
Aaron Carbuhn
2   Kansas Athletics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States
,
Philip R. Stanforth
3   Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
,
Jonathan Oliver
4   Department of Kinesiology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, United States
,
Christopher W. Bach
5   Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States
,
Tyler Bosch
6   Educational Technology Innovations, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
,
Donald R. Dengel
1   School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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accepted 08 November 2019

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14 January 2020 (online)

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Abstract

This study aimed to examine body composition using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in male and female NCAA Division I collegiate basketball athletes. Two-hundred ten (male [M]/female [F]=88/122) basketball athletes’ total and regional fat mass, lean mass, bone mineral density, and visceral adipose tissue were measured. Athletes were classified as: point guards (M/F=27/34), shooting guards (M/F=18/27), small forwards (M/F=13/18), power forwards (M/F=21/27), and centers (M/F=9/16). ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD assessed positional differences by sex. In males, centers and power forwards had greater total fat mass (p<0.025), lean mass (p≤0.001), and visceral adipose tissue (p<0.001) than other positions. Male centers had greater arm and leg fat mass and lean mass than point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards (p≤0.049), and greater arm bone mineral density than point guards (p=0.015). In females, centers had greater total fat mass (p<0.001) vs. other positions and greater total lean mass, arm fat and lean masses, arm and leg bone mineral density, and visceral adipose tissue vs. point guards and shooting guards (p≤0.005). Female point guards had lower total bone mineral density than power forwards (p=0.008). In conclusion, these sex- and position-specific total and regional body composition measurements in collegiate basketball players provide population-specific normative data.

Key word

dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) - bone mineral density - fat mass - lean mass, visceral adipose tissue
 

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