Basketball scorekeeping is the practice of tracking the statistics of a basketball game throughout the duration of play. Points serve as the measure of scorekeeping, and are accumulated by making field goals (two or three points) or free throws (one point). The team with the most points when the game ends is declared the winner.
One point is scored toward a team when its player makes a free throw. Free throws are awarded from shooting fouls, personal fouls that exceed the team foul limit, or technical and flagrant fouls committed against a player.
Two points are scored toward a team when its player makes a field goal from inside the three-point line. If that player is fouled in the act of shooting, a made free throw turns the field goal into a three-point play. [1]
Three points are scored toward a team when its player makes a field goal from beyond the three-point line. If that player is fouled in the act of shooting, a made free throw turns the field goal into a four-point play. [2]
