Sensational Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles march on in the 2024 playoffs after sealing their quarter-final series 2-0. The destructive men in black dispatched Caledonia Gladiators in convincing style — leading from start to finish to dash any hopes the Scots harboured of forcing a decisive game three. A dominant display of total team basketball underpinned…
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Next month we will celebrate an incredible 20 seasons for Eagles legend Darius Defoe with a special testimonial game not to be missed! Players from across his 20 years at the club will take to the Vertu Motors Arena court, many for the first time, on Saturday 15th June at 7:30pm. Tickets are just £13…
Head Coach Matt Newby had talked about the three-game run-in to the End of Season Playoffs. He said his team’s focus was on delivering the best 120 minutes of regular season 40 minutes basketball to prepare themselves for that closing competition. The first 80 of that 120 had been delivered well. A close win at…
The Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles who had finished 6th in the British Basketball League regular season standings travelled to Scotland to take on the 3rd placed finishing Caledonia Gladiators. After 40 minutes basketball any neutral watching would have assumed the standings were the other way round. Newcastle were simply irresistible all game. Never behind and…
Our Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles Men’s British Basketball League 2024 Play-Offs opening tip-offs have been confirmed. Following Leicester Riders’ win at Surrey Scorchers yesterday, the men were locked into 6th place in this season’s Championship standings and will face Caledonia Gladiators who finished 3rd. As the higher seed, Caledonia Gladiators have home advantage and host…
Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles’ men and women have already been assured of Play-Offs places, but as the final Championship tip-offs approach across both leagues the first fixtures for our post-season are not yet set. While our Eagles women have one more weekend of British Basketball League action to decide their post-season opponents and that could…
The inconsistency that the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles have shown most of the season came back to haunt them in Manchester on Saturday night. After a Dr. Jekyll performance against Cheshire at home on Friday, Mr Hyde returned on Saturday. With Sheffield defeating Plymouth at home also on Saturday, it now means the Eagles can’t…
The Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles flew down to Cardiff to take on the season-long winless Cardiff Met Archers and in a game that was perhaps closer than they would have like came away with a vital win in the race for the end of season Women’s British Basketball League play-offs. The Eagles look now an…
Fourth place is still within the grasp of Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles after Marc Steutel’s men dismantled Championship runners-up Cheshire Phoenix. A packed Vertu Motors Arena roared the home side to victory on a night when Bristol’s defeat to Caledonia guaranteed the men in black a top six finish. But a win at Manchester tonight…