A significant amount of pride will be on the line when the bottom two clubs in the BBL Championship meet each other for the first time in their history this weekend.

Leeds Carnegie exited the National Trophy at the quarter-final stage on Saturday night. They came away from their game with Worthing Thunder on the wrong side of a 58-89 score line. Worthing will now face Manchester Magic on the 8th February in the semi-finals.

Week 18 saw some big results as Durham Wildcats destroyed the London Lions at the Copper Box to move into the Play-Off positions while the Cheshire Phoenix got a massive 'come from behind' win in the big North West derby, in front of a full house at the 'Rocking' NorthGate Arena.

After the excitement of the BBL Trophy last weekend, it's back to the cut and thrust of BBL Championship action.

Over the years I have been lucky enough to collect hundreds of basketball programmes from teams old and new. For some time I have been wondering how I could use those on mikeshaft.com. Well I have decided to publish team lists from some of those programmes. I hope you enjoy this.

Well the Beatles had a song called 'Eight days a week' and I have to say that the past eight days have been quite incredible for me.

The line-up for the 2014 BBL Trophy quarter-finals is complete as nine teams including current holders One Health Sharks Sheffield, bid to make it to the second BBL showpiece final of the season.

Leeds Carnegie Basketball made club history on Friday night as they made their British Basketball League (BBL) debut against Glasgow Rocks in the BBL Trophy.

Week 17 ends with the massive news that the Cup winning Leicester Riders have beed dumped out of the BBL Trophy by the Cheshire Phoenix. This means Riders have suffered back2back losses this weekend and are now And 3 in the BBL League Table.

Jay Couisnard believes Leicester Riders will be boosted by last weekend's second straight BBL Cup triumph - but insists they must maintain their high standards if they are to build on that success.