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Scottish Basketball Championship

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Sport
  
Basketball

Most titles
  
Livingston (17 titles)

Domestic cup(s)
  
Scottish Cup

Country
  
Scotland

Level on pyramid
  
2-3

Date founded
  
1969

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Most recent champion(s)
  
Falkirk Fury (5th title)

The Scottish Basketball Championships (former: Scottish National Basketball League, SNBL) and particularly Senior Men Divisions 1 and 2, is the top men's basketball league in Scotland, and forms the second tier of British basketball (inline with the English Basketball League) after the professional setup of the BBL, where Scotland has just one representative in the Glasgow Rocks. The governing body of basketball in Scotland is basketballscotland.

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Teams

The line-up for the 2016-2017 season features the following teams:

Division 2

  • New B teams of Division 1 clubs created for introduction of Division 2 at start of 2014-15 season.
  • BBL Competitions

    Since 2006, several Scottish league teams have been invited to take part in British Basketball League competitions.

    For the 2006/07 BBL Trophy, the teams were split into regional groups of 4 for the first round. In that year, the North group consisted of the Newcastle Eagles, the Scottish Rocks, the City of Edinburgh Kings and the Troon Tornadoes.

    City of Edinburgh Kings finished 3rd in the group with a 1-2 record. Troon Tornadoes finished 4th with a 0-3 record.

    Since the 2009/10 season, the BBL Trophy has been a straight knockout competition.

    References

    Scottish Basketball Championship Wikipedia


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