Scotland national basketball team
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.
In 2005 Scotland, along with England and their counterparts in Wales combined forces to form the Great Britain national basketball team, with the target goal to field a competitive team capable of winning medals at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Despite the merge, the Scotland national team is still competing in the FIBA Europe's Division C. Scotland's direct affiliation to FIBA will end 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
Eurobasket 1951
The Scottish team's first European championship competition was at Eurobasket 1951 in Paris. They lost their 8 games and finished 16th place out of 18. They outranked Luxembourg, who had had the misfortune of being in a 5-team preliminary group instead of a 4-team group (and losing all of their games), and Romania, who had dropped out of the tournament at the last minute.[2]
Eurobasket 1957
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
Performance at Summer Olympics
yet to qualify
Performance at FIBA World championships
yet to qualify
Performance at Eurobasket
Performance at the Commonwealth Games
Melbourne 2006
| Games Played |
Won |
Lost |
Points Scored |
Points Conceded |
Point Difference |
Final Place |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | 366 | 429 | −63 | 6th |
Current roster
| # |
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 |
See also
External links
References
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India 
Nigeria 
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