Adelaide 36ers Finalise Milestone Educational Partnership with Learn Fresh to Launch NBA Math Hoops

The Adelaide 36ers have officially finalised a community partnership with global non-profit organisation Learn Fresh to deliver the internationally recognised NBA Math Hoops program to classrooms across South Australia and the Northern Territory.

The agreement marks an operational milestone for the National Basketball League franchise, establishing the Adelaide 36ers as the first professional basketball organisation outside of the United States globally to formally adopt and implement the curriculum.

Integrating High-Performance Sports Data with STEM Education

The collaboration functions as a specialised sports-based educational platform engineered to improve student engagement metrics across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. By using the global brand appeal of basketball and real-world statistics from active National Basketball Association rosters, the program guides students through interactive board games and digital gameplay structures to strengthen underlying division, multiplication, and critical thinking skills.

The educational model boasts rigorous analytical validation, backed by data records from a randomized controlled trial study completed in 2025. The research indicated that primary and secondary students who completed between 17 and 24 hours of structured NBA Math Hoops programming effectively gained four to five months of advanced mathematical learning relative to their peers.

Globally, the Learn Fresh platform has scaled its operational footprint across six continents, successfully reaching more than 1.7 million students through community and sports-anchored curriculum deployments.

Grassroots Resource Allocation and Regional Community Outreach

Under the commercial and community framework of the partnership, the Adelaide 36ers will underwrite the rollout to ensure a limited selection of qualified schools throughout South Australia and the Northern Territory can access the program at no cost.

Enrolled educational institutions will receive complete access to the physical NBA Math Hoops board games, specialised curriculum kits, direct classroom implementation support, and dedicated professional development resources for teaching staff. Both organisations have emphasised a shared corporate social responsibility target to prioritize school networks situated within regional, rural, and remote geographic sectors.

To initiate the program, the franchise will host a centralised digital onboarding workshop, titled the Adelaide 36ers Math Hoops Training Camp, on Tuesday 16 June. The free, 90-minute online professional development session is designed to equip local educators with practical tactical strategies and direct program demonstrations.

The administrative rollout and school registration pipelines will be managed internally by Adelaide 36ers community coach Mitchell Noye, ensuring a direct corporate link between the professional sporting club and regional education authorities.

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