As reported in the 1883 Daily Prophet article “Bring Back Our Baskets“, this change by the Department of Magical Games and Sports was made to ensure fairness and consistency (QA6).
Hoops replace baskets in Quidditch
Date February 12th, 1883
Certainty Inferred from canon
Location in Canon
QA6
Type of Event Wizarding world
Commentary
Notes
Perhaps Rowling was inspired by the early history of basketball, which takes its name from the the elevated fruit baskets which originally served as goals (Wikipedia). -BB
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