International Basketball League

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	Logo	IBL2006jpg
	Pixels	200px
	Caption	International Basketball League logo
	Sport	Basketball
	Founded	2004
	inaugural	2005
	Teams	26
	Champion	Elkhart Express
	Website	wwwiblhoopsonlinecom

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.

CURRENT IBL FRANCHISES

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

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

Expansion Teams

IBL CHAMPIONS

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)

The Tacoma Jets were named the Tacoma Thunder for the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

---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

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