CB Peñas Huesca

CB Peñas Huesca (also known as CB Lobe Huesca ) is a Spanish basketball club from Huesca.

History

The club was founded in 1977. He started in the third division, from where he División in 1982 1 ª B, the then second division, rise. It followed the walkthrough up to the elite league of the Spanish basketball, the league ACB. In this, however, you could not keep, and promptly rose again. The following second-division season ended the team from a master and managed to direct resurgence.

Now Huesca established in the ACB league in which it was represented for eleven years in a row. 1987 and 1988 the team reached the play-offs, where CB Estudiantes and Cacaolat Granollers was beaten. It remained the only two playoff appearances in club history. Between 1989 and 1993 the team placed always in the lower middle of the main round table. Between 1993 and 1996, the club had to play four times in a row Play- Downs against relegation. First, the team escaped sporty, the year after it lost the play- downs, following the withdrawal of CB Llíria it was allowed but stay in the league. In the 1994/95 season, they made sure again sporting the league. Against the Valencia Basket Club, the team prevailed. By 1996 it was but as far as, Huesca had in the second division. It consequently went down with the club. There were other descents until the club had arrived in 2000 in the fourth division.

In the 2009/10 season, the team made their way back to the second division, where it was respectively 15, 2010 and 2011.

Name history

Through several sponsors exchange is called the club several times in order to:

Hall

The club plays its home games at full 5,500 places Palacio Municipal.

Achievements

• Spanish second division champions (1985 )

Well-known former players

• United States Alphonso Ford (1995-1996)
• Russia Valery Alekseyevich Tikhonenko (1992-1993)