Haha, no, I'm a fourth year civil/structural student, i'm trying to do some research on it, but I'm having trouble trying to locate some decent information on some failures, or any standards (australian or otherwise) which relate to the eccentric dynamic loading on walls, like that caused by basketball hoops. The closest I've came to anything is AS4226 which more or less just says "Don't put a basketball hoop on a brick veneer wall"
This site actually frowns on postings by students. For your research, I think you would have to reference news archives, as newspapers are where these tragic events are reported. You rarely find anything in technical literature, because the failures are not of engineered structural elements. It is common sense, but unfortunately common sense seems to be in short supply.
