It contains all the important elements an intramural sport should have: splashing, dunking, paddling, passing, scoring and a lot of screaming. Yes, inner tube water basketball has begun.

“I never thought I’d be playing this in college,” said Megan Hudak, senior in biology. Hudak said this is her second year playing.

Inner tube water basketball is played in the shallow end of a swimming pool with two basketball hoops erected on each side of the pool.

Each team has three to four players playing at one time and the players must stay seated on their inner tubes at all times. Players are not allowed to touch the ball unless they are seated on their inner tubes.

Players are allowed to knock an opponent off their tube if the opponent has possession of the ball. Players may only make contact with the tubes. Colored caps are used to distinguish the two teams from each other. Each cap has a number on it for the purpose of keeping track of fouls.

Many times, all it takes is one pass to travel the width of the pool when two players from a team are positioned on each side of the pool.

Rules that apply to regular basketball are applied to this sport, including jump balls and fouling. Fouls include intentionally splashing water in an opponent’s face, making bodily contact and dumping a player not in possession of the ball.

Traveling, however, is one rule that does not apply.

Players may hold onto the ball and paddle the length of the court at their own risk of being dumped by opposing players.

“Everything was great,” said Kayla Reicks, sophomore in communication studies, who also played for her second time. “I loved playing and dunking people.”