Yao Ming: Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Though lines to get into Chinese university libraries form around daybreak — students have to scramble to get their work done by 11 p.m. before campus-wide electricity shut downs — plenty of time is reserved for Prison Break, Carrie Underwood and snooker tennis. One extracurricular obsession, however, seems to dwarf them all: basketball. At Southeast University’s central campus in downtown Nanjing, rows upon rows of basketball courts are packed with students scrambling to get a Saturday morning pickup game in. And at The Sun’s meeting with Southeast University students, nearly everyone told us that they played basketball everyday before class.