Banvit B.K.

Banvit
Leagues	Turkish Super League Eurocup
Founded	1994
History	Banvit (1994–present)
Arena	Kara Ali Acar Sport Hall
Capacity	3,000
Location	Bandırma, Turkey
Team colors	Orange, Green and White
President	Özkan Kılıç
Head coach	Selçuk Ernak
Website	banvitbasketbol.com
Uniforms
Home Away

Banvit Basketbol Kulübü (English: Banvit Basketball Club), also known simply as Banvit, is a Turkish basketball team from Bandırma, Turkey. The team is owned and sponsored by the Banvit Company. Their home arena is the Kara Ali Acar Sport Hall.^[1][2]

The team currently play in the Turkish Basketball Super League and Eurocup.

History

The club was founded in 1994, by workers at Banvit, a meat company based in Bandırma. The team began playing in the regional leagues in 1998 and were promoted to the second division in 2001. In 2004, the team was promoted to TBL as champions.^[3]

The team played FIBA EuroCup Challenge in their first TBL season and reached the semi-final. The team reached the semi-final in TBL five times and reached the final in Turkish Cup Basketball twice, but never won these competitions. In 2012–13 season the team beat Beşiktaş in quarter-final series and beat Anadolu Efes in semi-final series of playoffs and reached the final, where they lost against Galatasaray Medical Park 4–1. For next season, Banvit qualified for the Qualifying Round of Euroleague. But they lost against Telenet Oostende and dropped to the Eurocup.

Banvit is considered to have one of the best youth teams in Turkey. Players like İzzet Türkyılmaz, Şafak Edge, Tolga Geçim and İbrahim Yıldırım were developed in Banvit's youth teams. Banvit also has a reserve team that plays in TB2L under the name of Bandırma Kırmızı. This team also played Turkish Basketball League in 2011–12 season.

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Postseason	Cup competitions	European competitions
1994–00	Lower divisions
2000–01	3	EBBL	1	Promoted	–	–
2001–02	2	TB2L	4	–	–	–
2002–03	2	TB2L	4	–	–	–
2003–04	2	TB2L	1	Promoted^Champion	–	–
2004–05	1	TBL	11	–	–	EuroCup Challenge Semifinalist^4th
2005–06	1	TBL	4	Semifinalist	–	Played EuroCup Challenge
2006–07	1	TBL	7	Quarterfinalist	Runner-up	Played FIBA EuroCup
2007–08	1	TBL	8	Quarterfinalist	Quarterfinalist	FIBA EuroCup Regular Season
2008–09	1	TBL	12	–	Group stage	Played EuroChallenge
2009–10	1	TBL	3	Semifinalist	Quarterfinalist	EuroChallenge Top 16
2010–11	1	TBL	2	Semifinalist	Quarterfinalist	Eurocup Regular Season
2011–12	1	TBL	2	Semifinalist	Runner-up	Eurocup Top 16
2012–13	1	TBL	3	Runner-up	Semifinalist	Eurocup Top 16
2013–14	1	TBL	1	Semifinalist	Group Stage	Eurocup Last 32
2014–15	1	TBL	5	Quarterfinalist	Quarterfinalist	Eurocup Semifinalist

Current roster

Bandırma Banvit roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 2 Ulusoy, İsmail Cem 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 75 kg (165 lb) 19 – 4 October 1996 PG 4 Fortson, Courtney 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 27 – 23 May 1988 SG 5 Johnson, Dominique 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 28 – 9 June 1987 SG 6 Slaughter, A. J. 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 28 – 3 August 1987 SG 7 Yılmaz, Erkan 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 18 – 3 December 1997 G 8 Geçim, Tolga 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 20 – 27 March 1996 G/F 13 Simmons, Keith (C, DC) 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 31 – 24 February 1985 C 14 Vidmar, Gašper 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 118 kg (260 lb) 28 – 14 September 1987 PF 15 Carmichael, Jackie 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 109 kg (240 lb) 26 – 2 January 1990 PF 18 Moerman, Adrien 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 102 kg (225 lb) 27 – 7 August 1988 F 20 Altunbey, Talat Alp 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 21 – 5 May 1994 PF 21 Yıldırım, Nusret 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 27 – 27 April 1989 SG 23 Mutaf, Can Maxim  1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 25 – 9 January 1991	Head coach Selçuk Ernak Assistant coach(es) Ruçhan Tamsöz Semih Soğuksu Team manager Turgay Çataloluk Legend (C) Team captain (DC) Dual citizenship Injured Roster Updated: September 25, 2015

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Gašper Vidmar	Jackie Carmichael
PF	Adrien Moerman	Nusret Yıldırım	Talat Alp Altunbey
SF	Keith Simmons	Can Maxim Mutaf	Tolga Geçim
SG	A. J. Slaughter	Dominique Johnson	Erkan Yılmaz
PG	Courtney Fortson	İsmail Cem Ulusoy

Notable players

Barış Ermiş Barış Özcan Bekir Yarangüme Can Akın Caner Topaloğlu Ersin Görkem Mutlu Akpınar Onur Aydın Serkan Erdoğan Ümit Sonkol Ümit Türkoğlu Yunus Çankaya - Ermal Kuqo

Erkan Veyseloğlu Cevher Özer Şafak Edge Vladimir Veremeenko Sammy Mejia Paul Henare Vladimir Golubović Vladimir Dragičević Kenny Adeleke Miroslav Radošević Vladimir Štimac Stefan Marković Kenan Bajramović

George Banks Joseph Crispin Corsley Edwards Antonio Graves Donnell Harvey Arthur Long Paul Miller Marque Perry Juan Dixon Lance Williams Kalin Lucas Clifford Hammonds - Chuck Davis E.J. Rowland

References

1. EurocupBasketball.com Banvit BK Bandirma 70 - 84 Valencia Basket Attendance: 3000.
2. Banvit BK Bandirma 94 - 85 BC Budivelnik Kiev EurocupBasketball.com Attendance: 3000.
3. "Banvit Bandirma: Club Info". Eurocup. Euroleague Properties. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

External links

• Official Website (Turkish)
• Eurobasket.com Page
• TBLStat.net Profile
• Official Facebook Page of Banvit Basketball Club
• Official Twitter Account of Banvit BC
• Official İnstagram Account of Banvit BC