Because the issue of serious leisure is becoming more important in Taiwan, so the main objective of this research is to investigate in college student's serious leisure characteristics and its effect on leisure satisfaction, with basketball for example. The research result indicates that the most important dimensions of serious leisure are "durable self benefit" and "subculture", while the most important dimensions of leisure satisfaction are "physical" and "relaxational". This research also shows that leisure characteristic and leisure satisfaction are significantly correlated, the dimension of "need to persevere" and "durable self benefit" are the most influential dimension in serious leisure characteristics while "physiological" and "educational" are the most influential dimensions in leisure satisfaction.