INTERNATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE

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:''This article is about the International Basketball League formed in '2004'. See International Basketball League (1999-2001) for information on the original unrelated International Basketball League.''
The 'International Basketball League' is a U.S.-based professional basketball summer league featuring teams from the West Coast, Rocky Mountains, and the Midwest. Founded by Portland area sports promoter Mikal Duilio, the league features rules designed to create a fast-paced, high-scoring brand of basketball.
Duilio first began planning for the league with a series of test games in Portland and Seattle in November of 2003. These games featured a mixture of traditional college and NBA rules, plus three rules created specifically for the league:

★ 1. The "Immediate Inbound" Rule: After a made basket, the referee will throw the ball to a nearby player, instead of a player throwing in the ball from under the basket, to eliminate wasted time.

★ 2. Instead of six timeouts as in an NBA game, teams are limited to only a single timeout per quarter.

★ 3. A 22-second shot clock is used instead of the NBA's 24. A defensive non-shooting foul or kicked ball resets it to 12.
The test games proved popular and resulted in the founding of the IBL in August of 2004. Founded with 8 teams, the league expanded to 17 by the start of the season in April of 2005. Each team played approximately 20 regular season games, most of them centered around their home region, with the teams with the two best records playing in a championship game at the end of the season. The Battle Creek Knights won the inaugural title by going undefeated in the regular season and beating the Dayton Jets in the finals.
In the league's first year, the up-tempo rules resulted in the average team scoring 126.9 points per game, nearly 30 points more than the NBA team average in 2004-05, and slightly higher than the NBA record for points per game by a team in a single season, set by the Denver Nuggets in 1981-82.

Contents

Current IBL Franchises

Expansion Teams

IBL Champions

Former teams that joined other leagues

Current Inactive Teams

Defunct Teams

Final Regular Season Standings

See also

External Links

Current IBL Franchises

Division	Team	City	Arena	1st Season
East Division	'Battle Creek Knights'	Battle Creek, Michigan	Kellogg Arena	2005
	'Chicago Heights Soldiers'	Chicago Heights, Illinois	Markham Fieldhouse	2007
	'Elkhart Express'	Elkhart, Indiana	North Side Gymnasium	2006
	'Grand Rapids Flight'	Grand Rapids, Michigan	NorthPoint Christian High School	2005
	'Holland Blast'	Holland, Michigan	Holland Civic Center	2006
	'Marysville Meteors'	Marysville, Ohio	Marysville High School	2006
Midwest Division	'Colorado Crossover'	Lakewood, Colorado	Colorado Christian University	2006
	'Elgin Racers'	Elgin, Illinois	Spartan Event Center	2005 ★
	'Hub City Hurricanes'	Jackson, Tennessee	North Parkway Magnet School	2007
	'Las Vegas Stars'	Las Vegas, Nevada	Tarkanian Basketball Academy	2007
	'Phoenix Flame'	Phoenix, Arizona	Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Grand Canyon University	2007
Northwest Division	'Central Oregon Hotshots'	Bend, Oregon	Mountain View High School, Redmond High School, Bend High School, Summit High School, Sisters Middle School	2005
	'Chico Force'	Chico, California	Chico High School	2005
	'Eugene Chargers'	Eugene, Oregon	Morse Event Center	2006
	'Salem Stampede'	Salem, Oregon	McKay High School	2006
	'Santa Barbara Breakers'	Santa Barbara, California	Santa Barbara City College	2007
Southwest Division	'Everett Explosion	Everett, Washington	Everett Event Center	2007
	'Lewis County Raptors	Chehalis, Washington	Centralia College, Winlock High School, Morton High School, Oakville High School	2007
	'Portland Chinooks'	Portland, Oregon	Peter Stott Center	2005
	'Seattle Mountaineers'	Seattle, Washington	Bellevue Community College	2006
	'Tacoma Jazz'	Tacoma, Washington	Tacoma Dome	2007
	'Vancouver Volcanoes'	Vancouver, Washington	Mountain View High School	2005

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★ The Elgin Racers were originally the Windy City Dawgs and relocated from Chicago, Illinois in 2006.''

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★ The Marysville Meteors were originally the Columbus Cyclones and relocated from Westerville, Ohio in 2007.''

Expansion Teams

Team	City	Arena	1st Season
'Akron Energy'	Akron, Ohio	Woodridge Middle School, The House Of The Lord	2008, played a partial exhibition schedule in 2007
'Arizona Lightning'	Arizona		2008, played a partial exhibition schedule in 2007
'Bellingham Slam'	Bellingham, Washington	Whatcom Community College	2005-06, played first two seasons in the ABA, to begin IBL play in 2008 [1]
'Dayton Jets'	Dayton, Ohio	Trotwood-Madison High School	2005, took a one-year hiatus for 2007 season, with plans to return in 2008
'Edmonton Sled Dawgz'	Edmonton, Alberta	Grant MacEwan College	2008
'Lansing Capitals'	Lansing, Michigan	Walter French Academy	2006, played a partial exhibition schedule in 2007, with plans to return in 2008
'Washington'	Washington, D.C.

IBL Champions

Year		Champion	Score		Runner-Up
2005		Battle Creek Knights	124-121		Dayton Jets
2006		Elkhart Express	119-108 (OT)		Columbus Cyclones
2007		Elkhart Express	113-109		Portland Chinooks

Former teams that joined other leagues

★ Akron Cougars (formerly the Cuyahoga Falls Cougars, joined the Universal Basketball League)

Current Inactive Teams

★ Tri Valley Titans

★ West Virginia Wild (plans to re-enter in 2008)

Defunct Teams

★ Akron Lightning(2005)

★ Aurora Cavalry(2006)

★ Cedar Valley Jaguars(2005-2006)

★ Des Moines Heat(2005)

★ Detroit Pros(2005)

★ Lansing Capitals(2006)
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★ Lake County Lakers (2006)

★ Macomb County Mustangs(2005-2006)

★ Mahoning Valley Wildcats(2005)

★ Oakland Slammers(2005-2006)

★ Saskatoon Prairie Wolves (Announced for 2008, but quickly folded due to pressure from the local media.)

★ Tacoma Jets
★ (2005-2006, announced for 2007, but removed from schedule)
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★ The Tacoma Jets were named the Tacoma Thunder for the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

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★ Lansing Capitals will re-join the IBL in the 2008 season.

Final Regular Season Standings

See article IBL Regular Season Standings

See also

★ List of developmental and minor sports leagues

External Links

★ Official League Site

★ Article on league's founding