Sport Basketball | Number of teams 11 | |
League National Basketball League National League champions Doncaster Ziebart Panthers National League runners-up Crystal Palace Chevrons Play Off's champions Crystal Palace Chevrons | ||
The 1978–79 Rotary Watches National Basketball League season was the seventh season of the National Basketball League formed in 1972.
The league was sponsored by Rotary Watches and the number of teams participating increased to eleven. Doncaster finished top of the league and also won the National Cup but Crystal Palace won yet another trophy by taking the newly introduced Play off's.
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Team Changes
Leicester switched back to Loughborough and Bedford dropped out of the league. Bracknell and Sunderland joined; the latter playing at the Crowtree Leisure Centre in the centre of Sunderland.
League Standings
deducted two points *
References
1978–79 National Basketball League season Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA