If the ball goes all the way thru the hoop before the glass breaks then yes it counts.
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The backboard is from plexiglass or glass.
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The first team to use a glass backboard was the Indiana Hoosiers men's team in 1917. The glass plate was made by a company in Bloomington and was 1 1/2 inches thick.
Everybody Breaks a Glass was created on 2011-07-19.
Chuck Connors in 1946 playing for the Boston Celtics. When playing for the Boston Celtics in 1946, Connors took a set shot during pregame warm-ups, hitting the front of the rim. Because an arena worker had failed to place a protective piece between the rim and backboard, the backboard shattered.
1962. Ottawa Hills High School in Toledo, OH.
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i think that when we touch a vibrating metal rod with a glass the sound energy gets converted to mechanical energy which the particles of glass can't manage and thus glass breaks.
A backboard is a flat vertical surface used in basketball to which the basket is attached, or a wall in the game of tennis, often used for practice, where balls can be hit at a flat surface in order to practise hitting.