Big V

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The Big V is Victoria's premier senior basketball league, comprising 102 semi-professional sides in 10 competitions.

Big V Logo

These competitions comprise both genders, and incorporate four levels of senior competition (men), three levels for women and youth leagues. As a member of the Australian Basketball Association (ABA), the winner of the Big V Championship League gains automatic entry for the Australian Basketball Club Championships against the winners of the other ABA conferences.

The league commenced under the name "the Victorian Women's Conference" in 1987. The men's and women's competitions were run independently until 2000. Until this time the league was known as either the CVIBL (Country Victorian Invitation Basketball League), the VBL (Victorian Basketball League) or WVBL (Women's Victorian Basketball League). In 2004, the member clubs of the league voted to re-brand the entire league structure as Big V going forward.

[edit] Past Winners

MEN

Year	Championship	Div 1^(a)	Div 2^(b)	Youth League	Youth League 2
1989		Swan Hill
1990		Mildura
1991		Horsham
1992		Werribee
1993		Werribee
1994		Shepparton
1995		Werribee
1996		Werribee
1997		Warrnambool	Whittlesea
1998		Warrnambool	Frankston
1999		Ringwood	Sunbury
2000	Shepparton	Knox	Horsham
2001	Shepparton	Geelong	Horsham
2002	Sandringham	Nunawading	Horsham
2003	Shepparton	Werribee	Horsham
2004	Hume City	Melbourne University	Keilor	Kilsyth	Eltham
2005

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

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

WOMEN

Year	Championship	Div 1^(a)	Div 2^(b)	Youth League
1987		Eltham
1988		Coburg	Kilsyth
1989		Broadmeadows	Eltham
1990		Eltham	Warrnambool
1991		Bendigo	Moe
1992		Bendigo	Bendigo
1993		Heyfield	Korumburra
1994		Waverley	Broadmeadows
1995		Ballarat	Broadmeadows/Keilor
1996		Ballarat	Broadmeadows/Keilor
1997		Ballarat	Albury
1998		Ballarat	Eltham
1999		Ballarat	Bulleen
2000	Ballarat	Kilsyth	Mildura
2001	Ballarat	Nunawading	Traralgon
2002	Ballarat	Kilsyth	Mildura
2003	Melbourne	Shepparton	La Trobe University
2004	Melbourne	Nunawading	Eltham
2005

^(a) Competition known as Victorian Women's Conference 1987-1988, Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League (CVIBL) 1989-1997, Women's Victorian Basketball League 1998-1999 and Victorian Basketball League (VBL)- Premier League 2000-2004

^(b) Competition known as Victorian Women's Conference 1988-1988, Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League (CVIBL) 1989-1997, Women's Victorian Basketball League 1998-1999 and Victorian Basketball League (VBL)- Premier League 2000-2004