Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders won their second piece of silverware this season on Saturday night as the East Midlands side sealed the BBL Championship regular season crown with a 93-70 home victory over Durham Wildcats.
The race for the top four in the BBL Championship has been blown wide open as the teams in fifth and sixth - Glasgow Rocks and Worcester Wolves - beat those in third and fourth as all seek home court advantage in the Playoffs.
Damian Jennings has been appointed as Head Coach of the Standard Life GB Senior Women’s team and will lead them into this summer’s EuroBasket Women in France.
The Sharks made it four wins in a row in the month of March, with their second highly impressive victory of this week, as they beat the Worcester Wolves 78-73.
A thrilling BBL Trophy final in front of a crowd of more than 5000 saw One Health Sharks Sheffield take home the silverware with a 71-69 victory at the Emirates Arena on Saturday.
A resolute One Health Sharks Sheffield have won the BBL Trophy after beating the Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders 69-71 at the Emirates Arena. It is 15 years since the last and only time that the Sharks have won the BBL Trophy, and is their third piece of silverware in the last four seasons.
In 2013, the Leicester Riders were flying and looking as if they were going to have a clean sweep of all the BBL trophies. It was not to be as the Sheffield Sharks beat them in a thrilling BBL Trophy Final at the Commonwealth Games Arena in Glasgow.
The 2013 BBL Trophy final will take place at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow on Saturday afternoon as Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders face One Health Sharks Sheffield.
Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders and One Health Sharks Sheffield will meet in the BBL Trophy Final at the Emirates Arena next week after a weekend of thrilling action.
