MEDIA RELEASE – NBL1 WEST TO TIP OFF IN 2021
Australia’s premier winter basketball league NBL1 will take another major step in its e...
read moreMEDIA RELEASE – NBL1 WEST TO TIP OFF IN 2021
Australia’s premier winter basketball league NBL1 will take another major step in its expansion in 2021 with the establishment of NBL1 West. The NBL has reached a landmark agreement with Basketball Western Australia to rebrand the men’s and women’s State Basketball League (SBL) to NBL1 West. NBL1 West will join NBL1 South (Victoria and Tasmania), NBL1 North […]
read moreGreat sense of pride for Ellis to bring success to Senators
MIKE Ellis might be synonymous with the Perth Wildcats, but the Stirling and Warwick Senators have been part of his life for near on 50 years now and to bring the club their first championship banner since the SBL’s inception with his son as captain is right up there in his basketball accomplishments. It’s not […]
read moreNix proud to share West Coast Classic title with players, family
HAVING waited a long time and had teams who were knocking on the door, Joondalup Wolves coach Charles Nix couldn’t be prouder of his Lady Wolfpack team who won the West Coast Classic to give him the chance to share it with his group and family alike. Nix can now call himself a championship winning […]
read moreReferee Appreciation
Referee Appreciation Post Without referees, there is no game and this years SBL West Coast Classic would not have gone ahead was it not for our committed and passionate SBL referee group. Many don’t know the SBL referees took a volunteer pay reduction of over 50% this season to ensure the WCC competition could go […]
read moreDeep Senators too much as Warwick wins first banner
THE Warwick Senators emerged as the best team during the West Coast Classic but Ben Purser and the Perry Lakes Hawks threw everything at them in Sunday’s Grand Final before they went on to claim the first championship banner to take back to Warwick Stadium, winning 96-81. The West Coast Classic Grand Final was set […]
read more2020 WCC SBL GRAND FINAL LIVE STREAM
The Men’s 2020 West Coast Classic SBL Grand Final is streaming live via SBL Facebook or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRuTR9G6J4Y&ab_channel=WASBL Join host Josh Garlepp along with Fleur McIntyre and Chris Pike as they bring you all the action live from the Bendat Basketball Centre at 7pm. Warwick Senators v Perry Lakes Hawks
read moreGrand Final Men’s West Coast Classic Preview
THE Warwick Senators and Perry Lakes Hawks finished top two in the West Coast Classic, won their semi-final match ups on Friday night and now both clubs agree they are throwing everything into winning Sunday’s Grand Final as they would if it was an official SBL competition. The West Coast Classic was started up in […]
read morePowerful Lady Wolfpack claim West Coast Classic title
THEY appeared the team to beat when the West Coast Classic started in place of the SBL in 2020 and they lived up to those expectations with a dominant finals weekend as the Joondalup Wolves won Saturday night’s Grand Final over the Perry Lakes Hawks 72-54. The cancellation of the SBL season for 2020 thanks […]
read moreGrand Final Women’s West Coast Classic Preview
THE Perry Lakes Hawks and Joondalup Wolves both delivered emphatic semi-final performances to set up what shapes as a scorching finish to the West Coast Classic in Saturday night’s Grand Final at Bendat Basketball Centre. The West Coast Classic has proved a tremendous success having started up in place of the SBL season for 2020 […]
read moreSemi Finals West Coast Classic Men’s Wrap
THE Perry Lakes Hawks booked their place in the West Coast Classic Grand Final as Cooper Hamilton lit up an undermanned Joondalup Wolves while Cody Ellis shot the Warwick Senators past a fast-finishing Lakeside Lightning on semi-final night. The West Coast Classic has to be deemed a success going by any measure after it was […]
read moreSemi Finals West Coast Classic Women’s Wrap
THE Perry Lakes Hawks and Joondalup Wolves flexed their muscles in dominant and impressive fashion in the West Coast Classic semi finals on Friday night to set up a tantalising Grand Final match up 24 hours later. After an exciting and ultra-competitive nine rounds of action in the West Coast Classic for 2020 in place […]
read moreIsenbarger, Barr form impossible to ignore in West Coast Classic
AS the West Coast Classic has unfolded it has become a bigger mystery why Ash Isenbarger and Stacey Barr haven’t found WNBL homes for the upcoming season, and while one of them now has, they couldn’t be separated in SBL Shootaround’s Player of the Year voting. With Nes’eya Williams, Jessie Edwards, Nat Burton, Maddie Allen, […]
read moreWest Coast Classic GRAND FINALS
2020 West Coast Classic Grand Finals The showpiece events for Basketball WA in 2020 are set to take place at the Bendat Basketball Centre on September 26 & 27 as the best teams in the WA State Basketball League battle it out to become this year’s inaugural West Coast Classic Champions. Tickets on sale now […]
read moreHinkley a shining light for Giants and Kalgoorlie
THE West Coast Classic is exciting for the opportunities it’s providing to young players and Noah Hinkley is one of those with the Goldfields Giants as the 17-year-old continues to do the Aboriginal community in Kalgoorlie proud. Kalgoorlie has a strong history of producing some fine athletes and while many of those have been Australian […]
read moreIt’s time for us to back in female coaches – CJ Jackson
INNOVATION has always been something that fits well with CJ Jackson in his 30 years’ involvement in basketball in Western Australia, and now what he wants to see happen is steps taken for a female coach to take over a men’s SBL team in the future. Jackson has just returned in 2020 to the Perth […]
