Scotland national basketball team

Scotland Scotland
FIBA ranking 88 (T)
Joined FIBA 1947
FIBA zone FIBA Europe
National federation BasketballScotland
Coach Tom Campbell
Olympic Games
Appearances None
FIBA World Cup
Appearances None
EuroBasket
Appearances 2 (1951, 1957)
Uniforms
Light
Dark

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 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 eight games and finished 16th place out of 18. They outranked Luxembourg, who had had the misfortune of being in a five-team preliminary group instead of a four-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

Year Position Note Tournament Host
1951 16 EuroBasket 1951 Paris, France
1957 15 EuroBasket 1957 Sofia, Bulgaria

Performance at the Commonwealth Games

Melbourne 2006

Game Stage Opponent Score
1 Group A  Australia 129–52
2 Group A  India 67–57
3 Group A  Nigeria 91–83
4 5th–8th place Placement  South Africa 91–79
5 5th place match  Barbados 63–73
Games Played Won Lost Points Scored Points Conceded Point Difference Final Place
5 2 3 366 429 −63 6th

Current roster

At the 2014 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries:[4] (last publicized squad)

Scotland men's national basketball team roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr.
4 Fraser Craig Glass 22 – (1992-02-28)28 February 1992
5 Garreth James Lodge 26 – (1987-12-07)7 December 1987
6 Douglas Charles Bennett 20 – (1993-07-17)17 July 1993
7 Laurie Costello 32 – (1982-01-05)5 January 1982
8 Lee Robert Reilly 22 – (1992-03-11)11 March 1992
9 Jonathan Kristopher Bunyan 22 – (1992-06-01)1 June 1992 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Glasgow Rocks Scotland
10 Eoghann Ruiseart Dover 25 – (1989-03-02)2 March 1989
11 Calum Robertson Nicol 23 – (1991-06-08)8 June 1991
12 Christopher Cleary 25 – (1988-10-05)5 October 1988
13 Nicholas William Collins 29 – (1984-07-11)11 July 1984
14 Simon John Flockhart 35 – (1979-06-19)19 June 1979
15 Thomas Luke Adorian 29 – (1984-08-24)24 August 1984
Head coach
  • Scotland Iain Maclean
Assistant coach(es)
  • Scotland Peter Duncan
  • Scotland Benjamin O'Connell
Legend
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 7 July 2014

Past rosters

At the FIBA EuroBasket 2010 Division C:

# 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

References

  1. ↑ Basketball, British (13 August 2012). "News | Great Britain Basketball | Official Website : FIBA SIGN OFF BRITISH BASKETBALL AGREEMENT". Gbbasketball.com.
  2. ↑ "1947 European Championship for Men". Archive.Fiba.Com. 3 May 1947.
  3. ↑ "1947 European Championship for Men". Archive.Fiba.Com. 3 May 1947.
  4. ↑ Scotland | 2014 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries, ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
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