The Tri Valley Titans were an International Basketball League franchise based in Livermore, California . The Titans represented the Tri-Valley area of California, an area that also includes Danville , Dublin , San Ramon and Pleasanton, California . The team normally played its home games at Las Positas College , in Livermore. The IBL is a spring league, playing a March through June regular season.
7-812: The Tri Valley Titans were introduced by the International Basketball League on August 10, 2006. The team nickname in 2005 and 2006 was the Ballers. The team played its first season in San Jose, California at San Jose City College. The team boasted the IBL's two top scorers in Jovan Harris (35.3 ppg), and Alejandro Thomas (28.3 ppg), but finished a disappointing 10-10. As the newly relocated Tri City Ballers, playing in Newark, California ,
14-668: A member of the Southwest Division, but three of its scheduled regular season games were apparently not played. The IBL deactivated the team at the end of the regular season. International Basketball League The International Basketball League ( IBL ) was a semi-professional men's basketball league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States . In 2010 the Albany Legends became
21-514: The NBA record for points per game by a team in a single season, set by the Denver Nuggets in 1981–82. In 2010, the league launched a winter season which saw nine different teams compete. Four teams played an entire schedule and thus made them eligible for the playoffs. In July 2011, Duilio sold the league to Vancouver , Washington , businessman Bryan Hunter. Sharleen Graf was appointed as
28-585: The first team in the Northeastern United States to join. The IBL also sometimes featured teams from China and Japan which temporarily relocated to the United States for the IBL season. The IBL season typically ran from the end of March through July. Founded by Portland area sports promoter Mikal Duilio, the league featured rules designed to create a fast-paced, high-scoring brand of basketball . Duilio first began planning for
35-400: The franchise displayed much better results, finishing 14–4, and pacing the west. All-Star Jovan Harris once again led the team in scoring, but this time with just 24.6 ppg. The team also featured all-star Rock Winston (21.0 ppg). The nomadic franchise again was on the move to Livermore, California for 2007, this time taking on the name, Tri Valley Titans. The team compiled a record of 10-4 as
42-710: The league with a series of test games in Portland and Seattle in November 2003. These games featured a mixture of traditional college and NBA rules, plus two rules created specifically for the league: The test games proved popular and resulted in the founding of the IBL in August 2004. Founded with eight teams, the league expanded to 17 by the start of the season in April 2005. Each team played approximately 20 regular season games, most of them centered on their home region, with
49-483: The teams with the two best records playing in a championship game at the end of the season. The Battle Creek Knights won the inaugural title by going undefeated in the regular season and beating the Dayton Jets in the finals. In the league's first year, the up-tempo rules resulted in the average team scoring 126.9 points per game, nearly 30 points more than the NBA team average in 2004–05, and slightly higher than
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