Big V

This article is about the basketball league in Australia. For the Australian rules football team also known as the Big V, see Victoria Australian rules football team. For the rapper, see Big V (rapper).
Big V
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2016 Big V season

Big V logo
Sport Basketball
Founded 2000
Inaugural season 2000
No. of teams SCM: 12
SCW: 12
Country Australia
Most recent champion(s) SCM: Corio Bay Stingrays (2nd title)
SCW: Ringwood Hawks (1st title)
Most titles SCM: Shepparton Gators (3 titles)
SCW: Hume City Broncos (5 titles)
Official website BigV.com.au

The Big V is a semi-professional basketball league in Victoria, Australia, comprising both a men's and women's State Championship competition. The Big V also comprises Division One and Division Two competition for men and women, and three levels of youth competition for men and women.

History

In 1987, a competition called the Country Victorian Invitation Basketball League (CVIBL) was introduced for women's teams from Country Victorian Associations. The CVIBL was the brain child of Bruce McDonald from Swan Hill, and for many years the League was conducted in an outstanding manner under the direction of Isobel and Frank Smith (also from Swan Hill). In 1989, a men's CVIBL division was introduced, a league that was extremely well conducted and very successful, and had since grown to include many metropolitan teams.[1] Both the men's and women's competitions were run independently until 2000 when the Big V joined the Australian Basketball Association (ABA). For nine years, the Big V State Championship competition was considered one of six ABA conferences, when in 2008, the association ceased operations and the Big V became an independent league.

Current State Championship teams

Men

Women

Past champions

Big V State Championship
Year Men Women
2000 Shepparton Gators Ballarat Lady Miners
2001 Shepparton Gators Ballarat Lady Miners
2002 Sandringham Sabres Ballarat Lady Miners
2003 Shepparton Gators Melbourne Tigers
2004 Hume City Broncos Melbourne Tigers
2005 Sandringham Sabres Eltham Wildcats
2006 Dandenong Rangers Sandringham Sabres
2007 Dandenong Rangers Hume City Broncos
2008 Melbourne Tigers Hume City Broncos
2009 Melbourne Tigers Hume City Broncos
2010 Waverley Falcons Geelong Supercats
2011 Waverley Falcons Eltham Wildcats
2012 Ringwood Hawks Eltham Wildcats
2013 Corio Bay Stingrays Hume City Broncos
2014 Ringwood Hawks Hume City Broncos
2015 Corio Bay Stingrays Ringwood Hawks
Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League / Victorian Basketball League
Year Men Div 1(a) Men Div 2(b) Women Div 1(c) Women Div 2(d)
1987 Eltham
1988 Coburg Kilsyth
1989 Swan Hill Broadmeadows Eltham
1990 Mildura Eltham Warrnambool
1991 Horsham Bendigo Moe
1992 Werribee Bendigo Bendigo
1993 Werribee Heyfield Korumburra
1994 Shepparton Waverley Broadmeadows
1995 Werribee Ballarat Broadmeadows/Keilor
1996 Werribee Ballarat Broadmeadows/Keilor
1997 Warrnambool Whittlesea Ballarat Albury
1998 Warrnambool Frankston Ballarat Eltham
1999 Ringwood Sunbury Ballarat Bulleen
2000 Knox Horsham Kilsyth Mildura
2001 Geelong Horsham Nunawading Traralgon
2002 Nunawading Horsham Kilsyth Mildura
2003 Werribee Horsham Shepparton La Trobe University
2004 Melbourne University Keilor Nunawading Eltham
2005 Southern Peninsula Monash University Warrnambool Diamond Valley
2006 Sherbrooke Warragul Warrnambool Craigieburn
2007 Hawthorn Coburg Warrnambool Latrobe City
2008 Sunbury La Trobe University Diamond Valley Craigieburn
2009 Sunbury Melbourne University Werribee Whittlesea
2010 Melbourne University Chelsea Altona Chelsea
2011 Geelong Blackburn Warrnambool Keilor
2012 Mildura Cragieburn Warrnambool Coburg
2013 Whittlesea Melton Warrandyte Keilor
2014 La Trobe City Shepparton Geelong Western Port
2015 Melton Keysborough Whittlesea Chelsea

(a) Competition known as Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League (1989–1994), Victorian Basketball League – Premier League (1995–2004).

(b) Competition known as Victorian Basketball League – Division 1 (1997–2004)

(c) Competition known as Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League (1987–1997), Victorian Basketball League – Premier League (1998–2004)

(d) Competition known as Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League (1988–1997), Victorian Basketball League – Division 1 (1998–2004)

References

  1. ↑ Basketball Victoria Country History

External links

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