Template talk:Infobox CBB Team

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This template is designed to be put on general college basketball pages, similar to Duke Blue Devils basketball. It should be placed as the very first item in an article.

Blank template:

{{Infobox CBB Team
|name = 
|logo = 
|logo_size = 
|university = 
|conference = 
|conference_short = 
|division = 
|city = 
|stateabb = 
|state = 
|coach = 
|tenure =
|arena = 
|capacity =
|nickname = 
|color1 = 
|color2 = 
|color3 =
|fontcolor = (Use only to override second Hexidecimal number for easier reading)
|hex1 = 
|hex2 = 
|hex3 = 
|h_pattern_b=
|h_body=
|h_shorts=
|a_pattern_b=
|a_body=
|a_shorts=
|NCAAchampion = 
|NCAAfinalfour = 
|conference_tournament = 
|conference_season = 
}}

Example:

{{Infobox CBB Team
|name = Duke Blue Devils
|logo = Duke_blue.PNG
|logo_size = 150px
|university = Duke University
|conference = Atlantic Coast Conference
|conference_short = ACC
|division = 
|city = Durham
|stateabb = NC
|state = North Carolina
|coach = [[Mike Krzyzewski]]
|tenure = 27th
|arena = [[Cameron Indoor Stadium]]
|capacity = 9,314
|nickname = Blue Devils
|color1 = Royal Blue
|color2 = White
|color3 = Black
|hex1 = 000099
|hex2 = FFFFFF
|hex3 = 000000
|h_pattern_b=_thinsidesonwhite|h_body=000099|h_shorts=FFFFFF|
|a_pattern_b=_thinwhitesides|a_body=000099|a_shorts=000099|
|NCAAchampion = 1991, 1992, 2001
|NCAAfinalfour = 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004
|conference_tournament = 1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
|conference_season = 1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
}}

Duke Blue Devils
University	Duke University
Conference	ACC
Location	Durham, NC
Head Coach	Mike Krzyzewski (27th year)
Arena	Cameron Indoor Stadium (Capacity: 9,314)
Nickname	Blue Devils
Colors	Navy Blue and White
Uniforms
Home	Away
NCAA Tournament Champions
1991, 1992, 2001
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004
Conference Tournament Champions
1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
Conference Regular Season Champions
1954, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006

[edit] Unable to disambiguate

As it stands, there's no way to specify a specific person for a coach link if there's multiple people with the same name. For some people (Mike Krzyzewski), this clearly isn't a problem. For others (Roy Williams), the only way to get the right one is to put Roy Williams (coach) as the entry, which just looks lame. Any ideas as to how to fix this?

I think a similar thing needs to be done for conferences, where long names can be somewhat cumbersome, and in the case of the independents, the only way to get the appropriate page is to put in NCAA Division I independent schools (basketball), the actual name of the page. --fuzzy510 18:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I find this layout to be a bit constraining as well. Wouldn't it work if we simply removed the [[]]tags around the Coach and Conference tags? They'd no longer be auto-linked but the user could resolve that on a page per page basis. Thoughts? Pepto gecko 18:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm being bold here - I've added a way to make a short name for the conference displayed, and I'm going to remove the brackets around the coach name. If someone really hates that, I certainly won't be offended if it's changed back. --fuzzy510 18:34, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

No complaints here. If anything your actions are are a trite circumspect ;-) Live long and prosper! Pepto gecko 18:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colors

It is very hard to read text in the second half of the infobox when the team color is the background, and I suggest only using the colors in the two small squares the line below Colors: x and y.

I'm an amateur at wiki-formatting, but what I mean is that the only thing that should be colored is the two boxes under Colors: Navy Blue and White, and the rest of the table cells, NCAA Tournament Champions: 1991, 1992, 2001 and so on should be colored normally.

Hangfromthefloor 21:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Check out the "fontcolor" variable. That will allow you to specify the color of the font. Moverton just added that ability a few days ago. See Kansas Jayhawks basketball. X96lee15 23:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes... that looks much nicer. Hangfromthefloor 16:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stylized uniforms

I somewhat boldly added (optional) parameters for stylized uniforms. These uniforms are used by a number of national basketball team pages and I think are superior to the "colors" option discussed above. I have added these optional parameters above and you can see how they look on the Duke example. Please see {{Basketball kit}} for instructions on how to use colors and patterns. Rolando 19:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

• I like the idea, but with a lot of teams using alternate jerseys to complement just the home and away (Duke's black jerseys and George Mason's golds come to mind), and the fact that this entire project is right now in its infancy, I'm not sure that it's the greatest thing to implement quite yet. --fuzzy510 20:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Obviously, adding a third, optional uniform is very easy (though a bit wide--we might have to tweak the {{Basketball kit}} template a bit). The way that the people who do {{football kit}} (i.e., soccer uniform) handle this--and they're the experts--is that alternate uniforms, which tend to change from season to season, go by themselves in a box somewhere in the article (see Celtic F.C. 2006-07, e.g.).

All that being said, I feel like this style of presenting team colors is, like anything else, better done early in the project than later. Further, we can also take this opportunity to improve the uniform template to allow some detail in shorts, different colored numbers, etc. Rolando 22:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC)