8-572: Ringwood Hawks 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 Ringwood Basketball Association (RBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in the Ringwood region. The Hawks play their home games at The Rings. Ringwood Basketball Association (RBA) was founded in 1990, with a men's team debuting in
16-572: A runner-up finish in 2013, the men went on to win titles in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. For the women, they played in four straight grand final series between 2013 and 2016, winning their maiden Big V championship in 2015. In 2019, the Hawks joined the NBL1 for its inaugural season . The NBL1 South season did not go ahead in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In the 2022 NBL1 season , the Hawks women won
24-680: 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
32-673: The Country Victorian Invitation Basketball League (CVIBL) that year followed by a women's team in 1991. In 1999, the men's team won the VBL Division One championship. The Hawks were inaugural members of the Big V Championship Men's division in 2000, with the women's team joining Big V Championship Women in 2003. In 2009 and 2010, the men's team finished as Big V runners-up. In 2012, the men's team won their first Big V championship . After
40-721: The NBL1 South championship and reached the grand final of the NBL1 National Finals . 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
48-442: 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
56-566: 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
64-618: 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
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