Durham Wildcats

2012/13: 10th place

The Durham Wildcats are a professional basketball team from the County Durham in England. The team took their game in 2005 operating in the third division of the " English Basketball League " ( EBL) on. In the 2009/10 season they managed to march through in the EBL Division One and after a season in the English top flight, they reached in 2011 to join the closed professional league British Basketball League (BBL ).

History

English Basketball League (2005 to 2011)

After the Belmont College since 2001, there was a regionally active basketball team in the City of Durham, 2005, the Wildcats were founded as a team that should compete in the national competitions of the EBL. In its first season, the Wildcats were included in the third division of the EBL and wore their home games at Spennymoor Leisure Centre. After two years they moved to Newton Aycliffe to the local Leisure Centre in the south of the Unitary Authority of County Durham at the border to Darlington. After a total of four seasons, they reached 2009 promotion to the second division in which they won the regular season and the play-offs next to the Patrons Cup League Cup. Thus they reached the walkover in the Division One. There they achieved in the 2010/11 season a seventh place. Despite the sporty rather average season in the English top flight they made an application for admission for the closed professional league BBL.

After the application for membership in the BBL had been upheld, reached the Wildcats in their first season in the BBL three wins in 30 games and occupied the eleventh and last place. The regional rival and established Eagles from Newcastle upon Tyne, the administrative center of North East England, dominated this season and won the BBL at the end of all titles. In its second season in 2012/13, the Wildcats won ten of 33 games and occupied the tenth and third to last in this season table space.