Horsens IC

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Horsens IC
Founded 1978
Hall Forum Horsens
(3,300 seats)
Homepage http://horsensic.dk/
Chairman Lennart Jensen
Sports director Dennis Nedergaard
Trainer Arnel Dedic
league Basketligaen
2015/16: 1st place
Colours Yellow & red
Jersey colors
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Away
successes
6 times Danish champion (1992, 1994, 1998,
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4 times Danish cup winner (1992, 1995, 2015, 2019)

The Horsens Idræts Club Basketball (better known by its abbreviation Horsens IC , alternatively also HIC Basket ) is a basketball club from Horsens in Denmark . The club, founded in 1978, is one of the most successful men in Denmark and has been national champion six times, most recently twice in a row in 2015 and 2016.

history

The current chairman, Lennart Jensen, was one of the initiators when the association was founded in 1978. Twelve years later, the first men's team rose to the top Danish league basketball league in 1990 , to which it has belonged ever since. After the runner-up and reaching the cup final as a climber behind the Hørsholm 79ers , founded a year later , Horsens IC won the double of championship and cup in their second season in the top division in 1992 . Two years later, another championship followed in 1994 and another cup victory in 1995, among others with the Canadian Craig Pedersen , who later became the national coach of the Danish and Icelandic national teams . Club legend and national player Steffen Reinholt, whose sons later sometimes played as professionals abroad, then ended his career. In 1997 and 1998 they lost the cup final against SISU BK , which prevented another double, as they won another championship against defending champion Bakken Bears in 1998. After one more runner-up behind the Bakken Bears in 2000, the top positions in the national competitions were initially sparse. After losing the cup final in 2003, they were again runner-up behind the Bakken Bears in 2004, before winning another championship against the defending champion and rival from Aarhus in 2006 with former international professional Mikkel Larsen . A year later they lost the cup final against the Svendborg Rabbits, whereupon Power Forward Monta McGhee moved to the second German league ProA and later also played with the Giants Nördlingen in the top German division basketball Bundesliga . For Horsens IC there were a few more years without any top placements.

After the team had again achieved third place in the championship in the “small finals” in 2013 and 2014, they won another title success after almost ten years after the clear success in the 2015 cup final over Randers Cimbria . In the finals for the championship they defeated with four wins to two defending champions Bakken Bears, who had previously won 13 of the last 18 championships, and won a double for the first time since 1992. In the 2016 cup final, the Bakken Bears were able to successfully contest a title when champions and defending champions Horsens IC were clearly defeated by 17 points 66:83. In the finals for the 2016 championship, however, Horsens IC won again with just four wins out of three and defended the championship title for the first time. Point Guard Nimrod Hilliard was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final series in 2016 and moved to the German first division relegated Crailsheim Merlins for the next season , after Skyler Bowlin , main round MVP 2014/15, via the detour Södertälje Kings in Sweden to the German First division club Gießen 46ers had changed.

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