Surrey United (basketball)

2012/13: 4th place

Surrey Heat is a basketball team from Guildford in England. The team was originally founded in Portsmouth as Southern Pirates in 1975 moved its headquarters to soon Guildford, where they played until 1982. Then they found their way to Bracknell, where they played until 2005 and initially changed the name to Bracknell Tigers and finally in Thames Valley Tigers. 2005, the owner John Nike, who is also the Bracknell Bees Ice Hockey Club funded, lost interest in the Tigers and was in the closed professional league British Basketball League (BBL ) organized franchise free. Then found supporters of the team in Guildford a new venue and the team returned as Guildford Heat back to its long-standing seat, where they play since 2012 as Surrey Heat.

History

Pirates ( 1975-1987 )

The 1975 laid down in Portsmouth team found in Guildford a suitable venue and then moved its headquarters to Surrey. Without having greater successes achieved there finally pulled the Pirates in 1982 to Bracknell to the nearby Berkshire has to offer.

Tigers (1987 to 2005)

1987 were counted under the new name Tigers of the founding members of the closed professional league British Basketball League (BBL ). In the first two seasons, they lost in each of the play-offs against the Scottish team from Livingston Murray BC, but won the 1989 League Cup BBL Trophy against this opponent in the final, as well as the National Cup which was played without the Scottish teams. In the following seasons to qualify for the play- offs continue, reaching under the name out since 1990 Thames Valley Tigers the final games in the play- offs, and in the National Cup that went against the then belonged to the Kingston Kings lost. A year later, they reached again in 1993, the play-off final, which was lost this time with a point of difference against the Worthing Bears. For this you won again against the Guildford in the new hall "The Spectrum" relocated Kings the BBL Trophy. This track could be defended in the following two years. While in 1994 lost in the final of the National Cup against the Worthing Bears, they reached the play-offs BBL first of the regular season and presented with Nigel Lloyd the "Most Valuable Player " (MVP) of the league. In the play-offs but would retire surprising for the same in the first round. The same was repeated in the following year, 1995, when it was eliminated as the main round Second Ex - NBA professional Steve Bucknall against the Bears in the first round. While one could beat the Sheffield Sharks in the final of the BBL Trophy, they lost the final of the National Cup against this opponent, who also won the play-offs of the BBL.

In the 1995/96 season would retire in play-offs, League Cup and cup competition in each case against the London Towers from who won two of those three contests at the end also. After it had been enough only for eighth place after the regular season in 1996, they missed in the 1996/97 season the play-offs for the championship completely. Only in 1998 they qualified again for the championship final, where they moved to the finals, which went against the Birmingham Bullets lost. But they won the final of the National Cup and won the second title in this competition. A year later, they stood again in the play-off final, which was lost, this time against the London Towers. After a play-off Erstrundenaus 2000, they missed in the two following seasons, the playoffs completely. In the following three seasons then you dropped out respectively in the first round of the play -offs. Then lost owner John Nike 's interest and returned the license.

Heat ( since 2005)

The supporters of the Tigers wanted by the demise of the team not resign and found to old workplace in Guildford, a new hall with "The Spectrum", had already played in the Guildford Kings from 1992 to 1994. The BBL granted a new license and under the new name Guildford Heat led to the activities in the BBL continues. In the first year you survived after all, the first play-off round, which the Tigers had not done since 1999. In the semifinals, however, they lost to eventual champions Newcastle Eagles. A year later, they won the regular season of the BBL and moved with co- MVP Brian Dux as a table first in the play-offs one in which one of the Scottish Rocks defeated in the semifinals, against which one had the final game in the BBL Cup won yet. With this success in the back you undertook veteran Tony Dorsey, in the 1990s, twice MVP of BBL, and reported for the ULEB Cup in 2007 / 08, in which one but all ten preliminary matches lost most highly, especially as Brian Dux lost in November 2007, after a car accident and a lack of primary care probably permanent health damage received. The defeat to the lowest point of difference is related to the 71:80 home defeat with nine points against the German representatives ALBA Berlin. In the national championship is then moved in 2008 as a runner-up in the play-offs, in which one the Milton Keynes Lions defeated in the final and for the first time in history won the Championship play-offs of the BBL. With the BBL Trophy could be equal to celebrate the second title this year. A year later, they lost this title in a rematch of the final game back to the Newcastle Eagles and also resigned as the defending champion in the very first round of the play - offs.

In the 2009/10 season, the Heat missed the playoffs completely. In the following season, they moved into the hall Surrey Sports Park and lost in the season 2010/11 the final match of the BBL Trophy against the Mersey Tigers, who won the play-offs, where the Heat as well as a year later the first in the round were eliminated. 2012 they changed then the name of the franchise in Surrey Heat and gave himself a new logo. As table fourth in the season 2012/13 we survived this time the first play-off round for the first time since winning in 2008, but lost in the semi-final against defending champions Newcastle Eagles.

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