This week brings a debutante and the second best BBL performance of the season. Devan Bailey (Manchester Giants) It’s a debut slot in our line-up for the Giants’ playmaker, having inspired his team to a valuable home-floor success against north-west rivals Cheshire Phoenix. Bailey enjoyed an incredible shooting night and could hardly miss from tip…
Surrey Heat 78 (F Holmes 20, Raftopoulos 13, T Holmes 12) Newcastle Eagles 90 (Smith 33, Maddox 26, Defoe/Martin 11) The Newcastle Eagles kept the pressure on the Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders at the top of the BBL Championship table thanks to a hard-fought 78-90 victory over the Surrey Heat at Surrey Sports Park…
There are some familiar names in our line-up this week, including a couple of players who feature for the fourth time. Chez Marks (Cheshire Phoenix) There could barely have been a better way for the Phoenix guard to rack up a third appearance in our starting five than by conjuring up a fast-break score to…
The Newcastle Eagles hosted their regional Proj3kt 3 on 3 Regional Tournament on Friday 15th February. The tournament was the pre match event before the Eagles BBL game vs Cheshire Phoenix. Small tournament had taken place over the preceding 2 weeks at more than 10 sites. From these smaller tournaments the winners progressed to the…
UCP Marjon Plymouth Raiders 79 (Schneck 24, Schreiber 16, Ojo 16) Newcastle Eagles 96 (Smith 26, Maddox 20, Martin 18) Newcastle Eagles avoided a third successive defeat to get their title defence back on track with an impressive 96-79 success at UCP Marjon Plymouth Raiders. Having lost their BBL Trophy quarter-final against Worcester Wolves, a…
Newcastle Eagles 92 (Smith 30, Maddox 29, Defoe 18) Cheshire Phoenix 94 (Marks 31, Gumbs 28, Bland 18) Cheshire Phoenix moved themselves into joint eighth position in the BBL Championship table thanks to a thrilling 92-94 victory over the Newcastle Eagles at Sport Central on Friday night. The result means that the Eagles slip down…
Four of our starting five this week will contest the forthcoming BBL Trophy semi-finals. Stefan Gill (Manchester Giants) The Giants’ guard takes his second berth in the BBL Team of the Week, courtesy of some blistering three-point shooting which torched Surrey Heat and resulted in Gill finishing with a stellar 28 points. He was a…
Newcastle Eagles 88 (Smith 23, Maddox 21, Defoe 16) Worcester Wolves 94 (Owumi 34, Masiulis 19, Ocitti) Worcester Wolves shocked a sell-out crowd at Sport Central with a superb 94-88 victory against Newcastle Eagles. Nothing could separate the teams over the first three quarters but a 7-0 burst gave Wolves a 78-71 lead late in…
Proj3kt 3on3, the youth basketball project launched at five of the BBL clubs last October as a partnership between the BBL Foundation and Sport England, has now added a series of regional tournaments to the regular sessions they have been running in the five BBL clubs local areas. These regional tournament winners will get chance…
