International Basketball League (2005-)

The International Basketball League is a U.S.-based professional 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.

CURRENT IBL FRANCHISES

Western Division

--- Aurora Cavalry (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Central Oregon Hotshots

--- Chico Force

--- Colorado Crossover (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Eugene Chargers (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Oakland Slammers

--- Portland Chinooks

--- Salem Stampede (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Seattle Mountaineers (2006 Expansion team)

--- Tri City Ballers (formerly San Jose Ballers)

--- Tacoma Thunder

--- Vancouver Volcanoes

--- Cedar Valley Jaguars (formerly Waterloo Kings)

Eastern Division

--- Battle Creek Knights

--- Columbus Cyclones (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Cuyahoga Falls Cougars (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Dayton Jets

--- Detroit Pros

--- Elkhart Express (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Grand Rapids Flight

--- Holland Blast (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Lake County Lakers (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Lansing Capitals (2006 Expansion Team)

--- Macomb County Mustangs

--- West Virginia Wild (2006 expansion team)

--- Elgin Racers (formerly Windy City Dawgs )

Future Teams

--- Akron Quakers (begin play in 2007)

Teams on hiatus for the 2006 Season

--- Des Moines Heat

IBL CHAMPIONS

DEFUNCT TEAMS

--- Akron Lightning

--- Mahoning Valley Wildcats

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