Scotland men's national basketball team

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Scotland
FIBA ranking88 (T)
Joined FIBA1947
FIBA zoneFIBA Europe
National federationBasketballScotland
Olympic Games
AppearancesNot eligible to compete
FIBA World Cup
AppearancesNone
EuroBasket
Appearances2 (1951, 1957)

The Scottish national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Scotland in international competition. They are organised by basketballscotland, the sport's governing body in Scotland, which in 2005, along with England and Wales merged to form the Great Britain national basketball team. The Scotland national team used to compete in the FIBA Europe's Division C. Scotland's direct affiliation to FIBA ended on 30 September 2016.[1] To date, Scotland's main accomplishments were two qualifications to the EuroBasket, Europe's main basketball event. Further, the team won five bronze medals at the FIBA European Championship for Small Countries.

History[edit]

EuroBasket 1951[edit]

The Scottish team's first European championship competition was at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. They lost their eight games and finished 16th place out of 18. They outranked Luxembourg, who had had the misfortune of being in a five-team preliminary group instead of a four-team group (and losing all of their games), and Romania, who had dropped out of the tournament at the last minute.[2]

EuroBasket 1957[edit]

Six years later, at the EuroBasket 1957 in Sofia, Scotland competed much better. There, the squad won one of its three preliminary round games to be relegated to the classification round. The first match in that round pitted Scotland against Albania, who had also not yet achieved a victory in EuroBasket competition. The Scots proved the better, 69–56. Afterwards, they lost their next six matches but showed considerable improvement from the last tournament. They competed against Austria and West Germany the whole game until they finally ceded by one point and five points respectively to finish the classification round 1–6 in 15th place overall, ahead of Albania which they beat twice.[3]

Robert Archibald is Scotland's most well known basketball player. Because of his accomplishments he became an inspirational figure to basketball players throughout his home country.

Competitions[edit]

Performance at EuroBasket[edit]

Year Position Note Tournament Host
1951 16 EuroBasket 1951 Paris, France
1957 15 EuroBasket 1957 Sofia, Bulgaria

Performance at the Commonwealth Games[edit]

Melbourne 2006[edit]

Game Stage Opponent Score
1 Group A  Australia 129–52
2 Group A  India 67–57
3 Group A  Nigeria 91–83
4 5th–8th place Placement  South Africa 91–79
5 5th place match  Barbados 63–73
Games Played Won Lost Points Scored Points Conceded Point Difference Final Place
5 2 3 366 429 −63 6th

Last roster[edit]

The following is the Scotland roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[4]

Scotland men's national basketball team - 2018 Commonwealth Games roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr.
F/C 0 Michael Vigor 27 – (1990-09-17)17 September 1990 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) Bristol Flyers England
G 6 Kyle Jimenez 19 – (1998-05-03)3 May 1998 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
G 7 Fraser Malcolm 21 – (1996-05-23)23 May 1996 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Black Hills State United States
G 8 Bantu Burroughs 27 – (1991-01-17)17 January 1991 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
G 9 Jonathan Bunyan 25 – (1992-06-01)1 June 1992 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
G 10 Callan Low 17 – (2000-11-11)11 November 2000 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Myerscough England
F 11 Gareth Murray 33 – (1984-09-23)23 September 1984 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
G 12 Sean Nealon-Lino 18 – (1999-08-13)13 August 1999 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Kent Crusaders England
F 13 Nicholas Collins 33 – (1984-07-11)11 July 1984 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) St Mirren Scotland
C 14 Christopher Cleary 29 – (1988-10-05)5 October 1988 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
F 15 Alasdair Fraser 25 – (1992-08-13)13 August 1992 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
F/C 20 Kieron Achara (C) 34 – (1983-07-03)3 July 1983 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Club - describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age - describes age
    on 5 April 2018

Past rosters[edit]

At the FIBA EuroBasket 2010 Division C:

# Player Position Height Current club
4 Garreth Lodge Point Guard 1.85 Edinburgh Kings
5 Patrick Campbell Shooting Guard 1.93 Edinburgh Kings
6 Grant Gibson Point Guard 1.82 E.Lothian B.
7 Laurie Costello Point Guard 1.87 Edinburgh Kings
8 Josh Crolley Small Forward 1.98 Troon Tornadoes
9 Daniel Donnelly Small Forward 1.98 Troon Tornadoes
10 Michael Lynn Forward St. Mirren
11 Ross Campbell Forward 1.98 Troon Tornadoes
12 Steven Leven Forward 1.97 Arkadikos
13 Thomas Pearson Center 2.00 Manchester Magic
14 Ikemefuna Attah Power Forward 1.98 Tees Valley Mohawks
15 Simon Flockhart Center 2.10 Edinburgh Kings

Head coach position[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Basketball, British (13 August 2012). "News | Great Britain Basketball | Official Website : FIBA SIGN OFF BRITISH BASKETBALL AGREEMENT". Gbbasketball.com.
  2. ^ "1947 European Championship for Men". Archive.Fiba.Com. 3 May 1947.
  3. ^ "1947 European Championship for Men". Archive.Fiba.Com. 3 May 1947.
  4. ^ "Team Scotland name 12-strong squad for Gold Coast 2018". basketballscotland. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

External links[edit]

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