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ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of selected psychological variables with playing ability of Basketball players and Volleyball players. The other purpose of this study was to compare the selected psychological variables between the Basketball and Volleyball players. For the purpose of this study 20 female intercollegiate Basketball Players and 20 female intercollegiate Volleyball Players of Degree College of Physical Education, Amravati were selected by adopting purposive sampling method and the age of the subjects was ranged from 18 to 25 years. The selected psychological variables were Will to Win, Sports Aggression and Sports Competition Anxiety. Will to Win and Sports Aggression were assessed with the help of related questionnaires developed by Anand kumar and P. S. Sukla. Sports Competition Anxiety was also assessed by applying Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) questionnaire developed by Reiner Martin. Playing ability of Basketball players and Volleyball players were measured by applying Johnson Basketball test and Modified Brady Volleyball test respectively and their scores were recorded accordingly. It was hypothesized that there might be significant relationship in the selected psychological variables with playing ability of Basketball and Volleyball Players. It was further hypothesized that there might be significant difference in the selected psychological variables between the Basketball and Volleyball players. To establish the relationship between the selected psychological variables and playing ability of Basketball and Volleyball players, Pearson's Product Moment Co-efficient Correlation was employed and to determine the significant difference in the selected psychological variables between the Basketball and Volleyball players independent "t" test was employed. The level of significance was set at 0.05 for testing the hypothesis. The findings of the statistical analysis revealed that no significant relationship was observed between Volleyball playing ability and selected psychological variables. Basketball playing ability was negatively correlated with Sports Aggression, whereas and Will to Win and Sports Competition Anxiety were found insignificant. It also revealed that no significant difference was observed in any of the selected psychological variables.