No, you can walk on to the team if you are good enough. Some schools like Cornell do not have any Basketball scholarships.
Yes
Merit Based Aid
you go on a medical hardship, you keep your scholarship, which does not count towards the team's total
Carl Crawford?
He wasn't interested in playing college basketball. And only wanted to play football for Notre Dame
You get scholarships usually in high school. NBA scouts will come down to view games, and if they think you have the talent to play in college, they will pull you aside for a scholarship.
By having a good basketball skills
He played basketball in junior high and high school and received an athletic scholarship to George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Basketball
He is going to Tuskegee University in Alabama on a basketball scholarship.
Yes, he was on Scholarship and played in Penn's final Four in 1979
Yes. Johnson attended USC on a baseball and basketball scholarship. He quit basketball after his sophomore year to concentrate on baseball. I have not been able to find any statistics concerning his basketball days.