Rochester Skeeters

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The Rochester Skeeters was a professional basketball club based in Rochester, Minnesota that competed in the International Basketball Association beginning in the 1998-1999 season. The team's head coach and general manager was basketball veteran Bill Klucas. The team's assistant general manager was Chris Lindauer and finished with a .500 record of 17-17. ^[1] During the first season—the team’s best, average and record-wise—they played to nearly 1,500 fans per night, finishing second in the league in average attendance.

The second season did not play out as well. Klucas and Lindauer left, a new coach arrived, and unknown players began shuffling through the rotation. (New coach Greg Lockridge used 30 different players in the 2000 season.) The Skeeters posted an 8-28 record (after a 4-21 start) and were the only team to not make the liberal IBA playoffs. Attendance dropped to just over 800 a game. The team’s finances followed the losing trend.

The Skeeters were sold in 2001 and morphed into the Salina (Kan.) Rattlers. The Rattlers, after averaging 577 fans a game, compiled a 9-31 record and folded after just 11 months. ^[2]

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