CB Lucentum Alicante

CB Lucentum Alicante is a Spanish basketball club from Alicante.

History

The club was founded in 1994. He could start right in the Second Spanish basketball league, Liga Española de Baloncesto the. There Lucentum convinced and made it to the semifinals of the playoffs. In this a victory would mean the rise, but subject to Alicante Gijón Baloncesto. The following season went bad, the team took to the 1998/99 season a regular mid-table and came into the play-offs not go beyond the quarter-finals.

With the, now playing at the Detroit Pistons, José Calderón, the team dominated in the 1999/00 season the league. The main round, it was concluded confidently from first, in the semifinals, the decisive game series to move up, the team placed 3-2 against CE Lleida Bàsquet by. The victory in the finals also secured one still the championship. Skip to first Erstligasaison in the ACB League, the club changed its name to Proaguas Costa Blanca. The team did not meet the requirements of the comprehensive 18 clubs in the Football League and dismounted as Seventeenth. Active back in League 2 and again with the old name Lucentum sat down at the crucial semi-final against Ourense Baloncesto through and got back up. Bàsquet Manresa was the team's defeat in the final and earned the club so that the second second division championship. In this ascent year the club also won the Copa Príncipe de Asturias, the Cup of the Spanish second division,

The second Erstligajahr was much better. The main series is completed with an eighth place, connected to the first participation in the play-offs at the Spanish Championship. As a rollercoaster but had Lucentum against the main round First, take the FC Barcelona. After all, one of the four games won Lucentum against the favorite, the master was later. This was followed by a re- change of name in Etosa Alicante Costa Blanca. Under this name, the team was unable to confirm the good results of the previous year and was Fourteenth. The season had the team but also beginning to play with a double burden, because the club for the first time took part in a European Cup. The ULEB Cup is reflected in the group stage, although respectable and won at least three of the ten games, but dropped out anyway.

In the season 2004/ 05 made ​​it to the club for the second time in the play-offs for the championship. With room 5 you also reached the, until now, best placement after completing the main round in the ACB league. Against Unicaja Malaga, the team delivered a thrilling duel for the semi-finals. Alicante led the series after two games surprising 2-0, but could Malagá the comparison even decide 3-2 for itself. In 2006, the club took a second time at the ULEB Cup in part and came there under the last 16 has been in the league 12 Alicante, in the following year one rose as Penultimate for the second time from after 2001. For the season 2007/ 08, which has been addressed with the aim of direct re-emergence, the club changed its name once more. As Alicante Costa Blanca you lost the deciding game to the rise just with 78:79 against Tenerife CB. The following year, the club has handled this step, also the final of the Copa Principe de Asturias was victorious against the Club Melilla Baloncesto denied.

Just in time for the first season in the ACB league in two years changed you one more time the club name, this time in Meridiano Alicante. The team showed in the first two seasons is not performing well. As 15 and 16 are escaped relegation only just.

In the season 2011/ 12, it became increasingly difficult to maintain the operation of gambling because of strong financial constraints and high debt. The players showed themselves from the problems not impressed and reached the third time in club history, the Championship play-offs. There Alicante had no chance against Barcelona. In the main Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto, you came to the quarterfinals and was eliminated there also against the Catalans. At the end of the season the club was again renamed Lucentum Alicante rose, for financial reasons, voluntarily to the second division from. The vacated starting spot in the league ABC got CB Canarias 1939.

Meanwhile, attempts Lucentum in the 2012/13 season a rebuilding in the league Española de Baloncesto.

Hall

The club plays its home games from the comprehensive 5,500 places Centro de Tecnificación.

Achievements

  • 2x second division champions (2000, 2002)
  • 2x winner of the Copa Príncipe de Asturias (2002, 2009)

Known (former) players

  • United States Darryl Middleton (since 2012)
  • Canada Andy Rautins ( 2011-12 )
  • United States Tyrone Ellis ( 2011-12 )
  • Serbia Vule Avdalović ( 2009-10 )
  • United States Lou Roe ( 2002-04 )
  • Argentina Pablo Prisoners ( 2001-03 )
  • Spain José Calderón ( 1999-01 )
2003–04 ULEB Cup Pablo Prigioni
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