International Basketball League (2005-)

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International Basketball League (2005-)
Image:IBL2006.jpg
Sport	Basketball
Founded	2004
No. of teams	24
Country	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Current champions	Elkhart Express
Official website	www.iblhoopsonline.com

The International Basketball League is a U.S.-based professional basketball summer league featuring teams from the West Coast 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 two 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.

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.

1 Current IBL Franchises
2 IBL Champions
3 Final Regular Season Standings
- 3.1 2005
- 3.2 2006
4 Defunct Teams
5 See also
6 External Links

[edit] Current IBL Franchises

Conference	Team	City	1st Season
Eastern Conference	Battle Creek Knights	Battle Creek, Michigan	2005
	Columbus Cyclones	Westerville, Ohio	2006
	Elgin Racers	Elgin, Illinois	2005*
	Elkhart Express	Elkhart, Indiana	2006
	Grand Rapids Flight	Grand Rapids, Michigan	2005
	Holland Blast	Holland, Michigan	2006
	Lake County Lakers	Lake County, Illinois	2006
	Lansing Capitals	Lansing, Michigan	2006
	Macomb County Mustangs	Center Line, Michigan	2005
	West Virginia Wild	Charleston, West Virginia	2006
Western Conference	Aurora Cavalry	Aurora, Colorado	2006
	Cedar Valley Jaguars	Waterloo, Iowa	2005**
	Central Oregon Hotshots	Bend, Oregon	2005
	Chico Force	Chico, California	2005
	Colorado Crossover	Lakewood, Colorado	2006
	Eugene Chargers	Eugene, Oregon	2006
	Oakland Slammers	Oakland, California	2005
	Portland Chinooks	Portland, Oregon	2005
	Salem Stampede	Salem, Oregon	2006
	Seattle Mountaineers	Seattle, Washington	2006
	Tacoma Thunder	Tacoma, Washington	2005
	Tri City Ballers	Fremont, CA	2005*
	Vancouver Volcanoes	Vancouver, Washington	2005

*The Elgin Racers were originally the Windy City Dawgs and relocated from Chicago, Illinois in 2006.
*The Tri City Ballers were originally the San Jose Ballers and relocated from San Jose, California] in 2006 to Fremont, California, Newark, California and Union City, California and became the Tri City Ballers.
*The Akron Cougars were originally the Cuyahoga Falls Cougars and relocated from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 2006.

**The Cedar Valley Jaguars were originally named the Waterloo Kings, and were renamed in 2006.<p>

Teams to resume play in 2007
- Dayton Jets
- Des Moines Heat

2007 Expansion Teams
- Buffalo, New York
- Chicago Heights Soldiers (Chicago Heights, Illinois)
- Everett Explosion (Everett, Washington)
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Medford, Oregon
- Ontario, California of the San Bernardino/Riverside area (Inland Empire, California).
- Phoenix Flame (Phoenix, Arizona)
- St. George, Utah

[edit] IBL Champions

Year		Champion	Score		Runner-Up
2005	Image:Iblknights.gif	Battle Creek	124:121	Image:Ibljets.gif	Dayton
2006	Image:Elkhart Express.gif	Elkhart	119:108 (OT)	Image:Iblclones.JPG	Columbus

[edit] Final Regular Season Standings

[edit] 2005

	Eastern Conference	W	L	Win %
Image:Iblknights.gif	Battle Creek Knights	21	0	1.000
Image:Ibljets.gif	Dayton Jets	15	2	.882
Image:Iblflight.gif	Grand Rapids Flight	13	6	.684
Image:Iblwildcats.gif	Mahoning Valley Wildcats	12	7	.632
Image:Ibldawgs.gif	Windy City Dawgs	7	8	.467
Image:Iblpros.gif	Detroit Pros	5	15	.250
Image:Iblmustangs.gif	Macomb County Mustangs	4	16	.200
Image:Ibllightning2.gif	Akron Lightning	2	15	.118
	Western Conference	W	L	Win %
Image:Iblthunder.gif	Tacoma Thunder	12	6	.667
Image:Iblforce.gif	Chico Force	13	7	.650
Image:Iblchinooks.gif	Portland Chinooks	14	8	.636
Image:Iblheat.gif	Des Moines Heat	10	6	.625
Image:Iblhotshots.gif	Central Oregon Hotshots	11	11	.500
Image:Ibltcballers.gif	San Jose Ballers	10	10	.500
Image:Iblslammers.gif	Oakland Slammers	5	14	.263
Image:Iblvolcanoes2.gif	Vancouver Volcanoes	4	18	.182
Image:Iblkings2.gif	Waterloo Kings	3	14	.177

[edit] 2006

	Eastern Conference	W	L	Win %
Image:Elkhart Express.gif	Elkhart Express	23	2	.920
Image:Iblclones.JPG	Columbus Cyclones	20	3	.869
Image:ElginRacers.PNG	Elgin Racers	16	6	.727
Image:Iblhblast.gif	Holland Blast	14	8	.636
Image:Iblflight.gif	Grand Rapids Flight	11	10	.523
Image:Iblknights.gif	Battle Creek Knights	11	10	.523
Image:Ibljaguars2.gif	Cedar Valley Jaguars	9	10	.473
Image:Iblmustangs.gif	Macomb County Mustangs	5	8	.384
Image:Iblcougars.gif	Cuyahoga Falls Cougars	8	13	.380
Image:LansingCapitals.jpg	Lansing Capitals	5	17	.227
Image:Iblwild.gif	West Virginia Wild	3	15	.166
Image:Ibllakers.gif	Lake County Lakers	2	14	.125
Image:Ibljets.gif	Dayton Jets	15	2	.882
	Western Conference	W	L	Win %
Image:Ibltcballers.gif	Tri City Ballers	14	4	.777
Image:SeattleMountaineersLogo.jpg	Seattle Mountaineers	15	5	.750
Image:Iblchargers.gif	Eugene Chargers	13	7	.650
Image:Iblcavalry2.gif	Aurora Cavalry	13	7	.650
Image:Iblslammers.gif	Oakland Slammers	10	9	.526
Image:Iblforce.gif	Chico Force	9	9	.500
Image:Iblthunder.gif	Tacoma Thunder	11	11	.500
Image:Iblstampede.gif	Salem Stampede	10	10	.500
Image:Iblchinooks.gif	Portland Chinooks	9	11	.450
Image:Iblhotshots.gif	Central Oregon Hotshots	8	14	.363
Image:Iblcrossover.gif	Colorado Crossover	6	14	.300
Image:Iblvolcanoes2.gif	Vancouver Volcanoes	4	21	.160