Friday night saw three dominant first half performances as both the One Health Sharks Sheffield and Surrey Heat progressed to the last eight of the BBL Cup and Newcastle Eagles remained unbeaten in the BBL Championship, advancing to 6 & 0.
The BBL Foundation is delighted to announce it has been awarded a grant of £200,000 by Sport England to undertake a pilot programme of 3 on 3 basketball participation activities, at a number of locations throughout England.
And so it is that I continue my first basketball weekend of the 2012/13 season. Today I am on my way to Leeds Carnegie as they entertain Westminister Warriors in Game 1 of a big weekend for the Yorkshire lads.
Well is's been about three weeks since the start of the new Basketball season and this was my first opportunity to get to a game and then get back to work calling some games.
The Newcastle Eagles kept their 100% start to the BBL Championship going thanks to a hard-fought 82-91 victory over the Manchester Giants at Wright Robinson College on Friday night.
The London Lions picked up their first victory of the 2012/13 BBL Championship campaign as they defeated the Surrey Heat 95-91 at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre on Friday night.
Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders' Rob Paternostro is celebrating his 100th victory as Head Coach of the Midlands club. The victory came as the Riders defeated Cheshire Jets 80-72 on Saturday night.