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International Basketball League
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- This article is about the International Basketball League formed in 2004. See International Basketball League (1999-2001) for information on the original unrelated International Basketball League.
| International Basketball League | |
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| Sport | Basketball |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Inaugural season | 2005 |
| No. of teams | 20 |
| Country(ies) |  United States Canada |
| Most recent champion(s) | Elkhart Express |
| Official website | www.iblhoopsonline.com |
The International Basketball League is a U.S.-based professional basketball league featuring teams from the West Coast, Rocky Mountains, Western Canada, and the Midwest. The IBL season runs from the end of March through June with playoffs in July.
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Founded by Portland area sports promoter Mikal Duilio, the league features rules designed to create a fast-paced, high-scoring brand of basketball. Duilio first began planning for the league with a series of test games in Portland and Seattle in November of 2003. These games featured a mixture of traditional college and NBA rules, plus three rules created specifically for the league:
- 1. The "Immediate Inbound" Rule: After a made basket, the referee will throw the ball to a nearby player, instead of a player throwing in the ball from under the basket, to eliminate wasted time.
- 2. Instead of six timeouts as in an NBA game, teams are limited to only a single timeout per quarter.
- 3. A 22-second shot clock is used instead of the NBA's 24. A defensive non-shooting foul or kicked ball resets it to 12.
The test games proved popular and resulted in the founding of the IBL in August of 2004. Founded with 8 teams, the league expanded to 17 by the start of the season in April of 2005. Each team played approximately 20 regular season games, most of them centered around their home region, with 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 the NBA record for points per game by a team in a single season, set by the Denver Nuggets in 1981-82.
| Team | City | Arena | 1st Season |
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| Akron Energy | Akron, Ohio | Woodridge Middle School, The House Of The Lord | 2008, played a partial exhibition schedule in 2007 |
| Arizona Lightning | Arizona | 2008, played a partial exhibition schedule in 2007 | |
| Dayton Jets | Dayton, Ohio | Trotwood-Madison High School | 2005, took a one-year hiatus for 2007 season, with plans to return in 2008 |
| Lansing Capitals | Lansing, Michigan | Walter French Academy | 2006, played a partial exhibition schedule in 2007, with plans to return in 2008 |
| Seattle Mountaineers | Seattle, Washington | Bellevue Community College | 2006-07, suspended operations for the 2008 season and will return in 2009. |
| Vancouver | Vancouver, British Columbia | 2009 | |
| Washington Presidents | Washington, D.C. | 2008 | |
| West Virginia Wild | Charleston, West Virginia | 2006, took a one year hiatus and plans to return in 2008. |
- Akron Cougars (formerly the Cuyahoga Falls Cougars, joined the Universal Basketball League)
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| Year | Champion | Score | Runner-Up |
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| 2005 | Battle Creek Knights | 124-121 | Dayton Jets |
| 2006 | Elkhart Express | 119-108 (OT) | Columbus Cyclones |
| 2007 | Elkhart Express | 113-109 | Portland Chinooks |
See article IBL Regular Season Standings
- ^ The Gary Steelheads started out in the Continental Basketball Association franchise and played the 2007 season in the United States Basketball League. They joined the IBL for the 2008 season.
- ^ The Windy City Soldiers were originally the Chicago Heights Soldiers and relocated from Chicago Heights, Illinois in 2007.
- ^ The Arizona Flame were originally the Phoenix Flame and relocated from Phoenix, Arizona in 2007.
- ^ The Elgin Racers were originally the Windy City Dawgs and relocated from Chicago, Illinois in 2006.
- ^ The Bellingham Slam played their first two seasons in the American Basketball Association and moved to IBL in 2007.
- ^ The Snohomish County Explosion were originally the Everett Explosion and relocated from Everett, Washington in 2007.
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Men's professional basketball leagues
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