The preliminaries of the University Basketball Association (UBA) were held at ISU on December 3 ~ 10, 2018, and ISU competed with National Taipei University of Business on the first day. The games held between December 7 and 9, 2018, were broadcast on TV while other universities would take one another on, including National Chengchi University, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Chung Chou University of Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Arts, University of Taipei, and National Pingtung University.

ISU’s varsity basketball team were ready to compete with other teams from various universities at UBA games from December 3, 2018.