Conference Basketball League

Conference Basketball League (CBL)
Sport Basketball
Inaugural season 1981
Ceased 2010
Country  New Zealand
Continent FIBA Oceania (Oceania)
Level on pyramid 2
Related
competitions		 New Zealand NBL
Official website CBL

The Conference Basketball League (CBL) was a second-tiered men's semi-professional basketball league in New Zealand. Beginning in 1981, it sat under the National Basketball League (NBL) as a development league from 1982 to 2008 until taking a break in 2009 and being replaced by the Conference Basketball League Zone 1 which ran in the Auckland Region. The initial CBL returned in 2010 in a diminished form and later ceased to operate after that. The CBL Zone 1 continued to operate in the years after but was later replaced with new competitions such as the Mexicali Fresh Summer Jam and the National Basketball Championships (NBC).

History

In 1981, a group of club and provincial teams came together to create the Conference Basketball League (CBL).[1] Prior to 1981, games were organised between neighbouring representative teams, or in annual tournaments organised as club or provincial national tournaments. Other competitions were also held during Easter tournaments or in small regional leagues. However, the following year, the National Basketball League (NBL) was established and the CBL became a feeder league to the NBL. Future NBL powerhouse team, the Wellington Saints, started off in the CBL where they won the 1982 league title, which promoted them to the NBL. Other teams like New Plymouth, Hutt Valley, Northland, Southland, Palmerston North and Napier also started in the CBL before joining the NBL. The CBL often acted as a development league in which NBL teams would have young players compete in the CBL with an affiliated junior team.

After Basketball New Zealand decided not to host the CBL in 2009 for the first time in league history, North Harbour Basketball Association took on the responsibility. However, the competition was predominantly run in the North Harbour area and was a Zone 1 competition, meaning the teams were made up from associations within and around the Auckland Region.[2] In 2010, Basketball New Zealand re-launched the initial CBL brand and ran a five-day competition with the assistance of the Porirua Basketball Association.[3] Despite Basketball New Zealand's running of the CBL, the CBL Zone 1 was also held in 2010 under the name of the Supercity Basketball Competition.[4][5] Basketball New Zealand again disbanded the CBL in 2011, but the Zone 1 competition continued to operate for a further two years under the name of the Senior Intercity Competition until in 2013, the inaugural Mexicali Fresh Summer Jam was held in Auckland during the NBL off-season.[6] The following year, Basketball New Zealand introduced the National Basketball Championship (NBC) as their newest competition.[7]

List of Champions

Year CBL Champions Runners-up
1981OtagoNew Plymouth
1982Exchequer Saints (Northern) & Napier Sunhawks (Invitation)Burroughs Karori (Northern & Invitation)
1983Hamilton (Northern) & Burroughs Karori (Southern)New Plymouth (Northern) & Otago (Southern)
1984New PlymouthPalmerston North
1985Truth North Shore (Northern) & Otago (Southern)Waitemata (Northern) & Wanganui Wolfpack (Southern)
1986Rotorua (Northern) & Wanganui (Southern)Cable Price Whangarei (Northern) & Otago (Southern)
Year CBL Champions Result Runners-up MVP
1987WaitemataAbbey Mazda Northland
1988Palmerston NorthWainuiomata
1989Hutt Valley LakersPorirua
1990WairarapaNelson Suns
1991Mobil Marters NorthlandHawera Hornets
1992New PlymouthMobil Marters Northland
1993Rotorua Runnin' RebelsCheckers Canterbury
1994Mobil Marters NorthlandRotorua Runnin' Rebels
1995Southland SharksRotorua Runnin' Rebels
1996Waitakere RangersHibiscus Flash
1997North Otago PenguinsTransAlta Wellington
1998Southland SharksNorth Otago Penguins
1999North Otago PenguinsMasonic Hawks
2000North Otago Penguins83 – 71Kaikoura Whale RidersLeonard King (North Otago)[8]
2001Kaikoura Whale RidersWellington College Saints[9]
2002Taranaki Stormers85 – 81Kaikoura Whale RidersWillie Banks (Taranaki)[10]
2003Canterbury Knights80 – 69Hutt ValleyBoyd Smart (Canterbury)[11]
2004Counties Manukau Spartans81 – 77Hutt Valley[12]Glynn Turner (Counties Manukau)[13]
2005Waikato Red91 – 74Hutt ValleyEarl Smith (Waikato)[14]
2006Waikato Titans96 – 81Waitakere Rangers[15]David Burgess (Waikato)[16]
2007Waikato Titans94 – 92PoriruaMason Le Pou (Waikato)[17][18]
2008Wellington Saints90 – 84Waikato TitansArthur Trousdell (Wellington)[19]
2009Not held
2010Hutt Valley111 – 95PoriruaLeon Henry (Hutt Valley)[20]
Year Zone 1 Champions Result Runners-up
2009Harbour Heat Reserves110 – 93AUT[21]
2010Breakers Academy72 – 58Waitakere[4]
2011Waitakere WestHarbour Heat Reserves
2012Waitakere West78 – 67Northland Suns[22][23]

References

  1. ↑ "Story: Basketball". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "CBL Zone 1 2009". FoxSportsPulse.com. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "2010 Conference Basketball League" (PDF). Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2015.
  4. 1 2 "SuperCity Basketball Championships". FoxSportsPulse.com. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Team look on the sunny side". NZHerald.co.nz. 8 July 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Mexicali Fresh Summer Jam 2013". Facebook.com. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "NBC Launched This Week". Basketball.org.nz. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "2000 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "2001 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "2002 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "2003 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "2004 Results Annual" (PDF). Basketball.org.nz. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "2004 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "2005 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "Saturday results". nzherald.co.nz. 9 September 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  16. ↑ "2006 Conference Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "2007 Conference Basketball League – Finals". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015.
  18. ↑ "Titans CBL Three-peat". Basketball.org.nz. 28 August 2007. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007.
  19. ↑ "2008 Annual Results" (PDF). Basketball.org.nz. p. 4. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  20. ↑ "Hutt Take Title". Basketball.org.nz. 30 July 2010. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015.
  21. ↑ "Harbour Heat reserves - 2009 CBL Champoins [sic]". FoxSportsPulse.com. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  22. ↑ "Waitakere West winning the 2012 Senior Intercity Competition". FoxSportsPulse.com. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  23. ↑ "Breakers Academy 4th In Conference Basketball League". NZBreakers.co.nz. 16 October 2012. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
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