18-517: Mount Gambier Pioneers is a NBL1 South club based in Mount Gambier, South Australia . The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Basketball Mount Gambier, the major administrative basketball organisation in the state's south-east region . The Pioneers play their home games at Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre. The Pioneers made their debut in
36-735: The COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020 season was cancelled for all three conferences. On 1 September 2021, the 2021 NBL1 South season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria. With a combined 154 men's and women's games that could not be completed, it was decided to abandon the season with no champions and no individual awards. * Clubs that transferred from the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). ** Clubs that transferred from
54-631: The South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) in 1988, but only made the playoffs in one out of their first nine seasons. Under coach John Burns, the Pioneers finished the 1997 season as conference runners-up before missing the playoffs again in 1998. They finished as conference runners-up again in 2000. Burns led the Pioneers for 5½ seasons before taking up a teaching job in Indonesia just over halfway through
72-630: The State Basketball Centre . Knox Basketball was established in 1965 to provide youth from the City of Knox with a sporting and social infrastructure to develop and promote personal, team and social skills in a sporting environment. Founded by Alf Stevens, Alice Jago and Heather Kemp, it began as an after school competition at the Mossfield Avenue Facility, Ferntree Gully in 1974. In 1980, its headquarters moved to
90-772: The 2002 season; he was subsequently replaced by his assistant Sonya Knight. With Sonya Knight at the helm in 2003, the Pioneers took out the SEABL South Conference championship before going all the way and winning through to the ABA National Final, where they defeated the Ballarat Miners 127–113 to claim their first ABA championship. The 2003 Pioneers squad included Jason Sedlock (co-captain), Damien Anderson (co-captain), Damien Smith, Jamie Holmes, Kurt Russell, Allen Cram, Ben Jones, Brad Wilson, Sam Fotu, Jason Joynes and Kingsley Clarke. Russell
108-570: The 3 court facility in Park Crescent at Boronia which was later expanded to six courts in 1989. In 1982, Knox's senior program was established, with a Raiders men's team entering the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) that year. A women's team entered the SEABL in 1990 after playing in the Women's Basketball Conference (WBC). Knox were WBC grand finalists in 1987. In 1991,
126-602: The Big V (Victoria). *** Clubs that transferred from the Premier League (South Australia). Knox Raiders Knox Raiders is a NBL1 South club based in Melbourne , Victoria . The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Knox Basketball Incorporated (KBI), the major administrative basketball organisation in the City of Knox . The Raiders play their home games at
144-712: The NBL1 South Grand Final, where they lost to the Hobart Chargers . NBL1 South NBL1 South is a semi-professional basketball league in Victoria and Tasmania , Australia, comprising both a men's and women's competition. In 2019, Basketball Victoria partnered with the National Basketball League (NBL) to create NBL1 . NBL1 South was the lone conference in 2019, with North , Central , West and East joining over
162-553: The Pioneers lodged a bid for their men's team to enter the New Zealand NBL in 2020. However, despite being granted entry by the New Zealand NBL Board, Basketball Australia declined to allow the Pioneers permission. In October 2019, the Pioneers were granted entry into NBL1 for the 2020 season. The NBL1 South season did not go ahead in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2022, the men's team reached
180-586: The Pioneers won their fifth straight SEABL conference title, this time winning the East Conference. They went on to clinch the SEABL championship, thus winning their third national title in four years. Following the 2018 season, Basketball Australia disbanded the SEABL, leaving the Pioneers in limbo for 2019. In December 2018, after much deliberation, the Pioneers were accepted into the South Australian Premier League . With
198-563: The Raiders classified as a non-playing member of the league in 2015. In November 2015, KBI announced that their senior men's and women's teams would be playing in the Big V in 2016 instead of the SEABL. In October 2018, KBI's Big V teams were entered into the NBL1 for its inaugural season in 2019 . The NBL1 South season did not go ahead in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2023 ,
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#1732801151760216-478: The Raiders men were SEABL South Conference champions and ABA National champions . The men won five more conference titles in 1994, 1996, 2006, 2008 and 2009. They were ABA National runners-up in 1996 and won the SEABL championship in 2009. The Raiders women claimed the SEABL-ABA championship double in 1992, 1994 and 1996. In 1998 and 2005, the women finished as ABA National runners-up. In 2012 and 2013,
234-414: The Raiders women were back-to-back conference champions. They won the SEABL championship in 2013. In November 2014, Knox Basketball Incorporated withdrew its Knox Raiders SEABL teams from the 2015 season due to its dire financial position. The Raiders requested they remain a financial member of the SEABL with the intention of returning in season 2016. The SEABL retained the club's financial guarantee with
252-588: The SEABL being Australia's elite semi-professional competition, the Pioneers were forced to accept many concessions in order to enter the Premier League, including diluting its SEABL-quality men's team, fielding a women's team, and paying $ 4,000 per visiting club toward costs of the trip to Mount Gambier. The Pioneers men reached the Premier League Grand Final in 2019, where they lost 107–90 to the Forestville Eagles . In June 2019,
270-442: The new league, while Eltham Wildcats , Knox Raiders , Ringwood Hawks and Waverley Falcons also joined the league from the Big V . The North-West Tasmania Thunder men and Launceston Tornadoes women also kept their place, as did Basketball Australia 's Centre of Excellence teams. In February 2019, the league was named NBL1 after Basketball Victoria partnered with the National Basketball League (NBL). The NBL1 in 2019
288-470: The proceeding three years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the NBL1 South did not have a season in 2020 and only half a season in 2021. In October 2018, following the demise of the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), Basketball Victoria announced a new senior elite league to take the reins as Australia's pre-eminent semi-professional basketball league. All Victorian-based SEABL teams joined
306-618: Was a single league and consisted of one conference. After a successful first season, the NBL expanded the NBL1 in 2020 by introducing Basketball Victoria's inaugural 2019 league and teams as the new South Conference and partnering with Basketball Queensland and Basketball South Australia to make the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) and South Australian Premier League the new North and Central conferences. However, due to
324-753: Was named Under 23 South Conference Player-of-the-Year in 2003 as well as the MVP of the National Final; Holmes won the South Conference's Most Valuable Player award; and Holmes and Anderson were both named in the SEABL All-Star starting five. After eight straight seasons of missing the playoffs between 2005 and 2012, the Pioneers won four straight SEABL South Conference titles between 2013 and 2016, all under coach Richard Hill. They also won back-to-back SEABL championships in 2014 and 2015. In 2017,
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