ProB 2017/18

ProB 2017/18
Duration		September 23, 2017 - May 2018
Order of execution		11th season
Number of teams		24
Main round
Play-offs
← ProB 2016/17 ProB 2018/19 →
↑ ProA 2017/18 Regionalliga North / Southeast / Southwest / West ↓

The 2017/18 season is the eleventh season of the German ProB basketball division . The ProB is the second season of the hierarchically structured 2nd basketball league . The main round of the season started on September 23, 2017, and the last matchday will take place on February 24, 2018. This was followed by the play-offs for promotion, which ended in May 2018 with the second final game, as well as the relegation rounds. The champions were the Scanplus Baskets Elchingen , who defeated the Rostock Seawolves in the final.

Game mode

Twelve teams each in two groups, north and south, take part in this league's play. The main round is played as a round-robin tournament in the mode everyone against everyone with a return leg in the north and south seasons. The eight best-placed teams at the end of this main round play the two finalists in the play-offs in the "Best-of-Three" mode , both of whom acquire the right to participate in the ProA for the following season and play the champions of this division. The teams in positions nine to twelve of each group at the end of the main round play another round-robin tournament with a round trip within the regional groups while maintaining the main round results, with the two teams in the two lowest places in the table relegating to the regional leagues. If more than twelve teams take part in a group, the teams ranked behind twelfth place in the main round are relegated directly.

conditions

The participating clubs must provide proof of their athletic qualifications, economic performance, suitability of technical playing facilities and organizational requirements, which is regulated by the license statute. In addition, the organization of the club, the promotion of young talent and the venue infrastructure are assessed using a point system. In particular, a venue with a capacity for at least 500 spectators is mandatory for participants in the ProB.

Use of foreign players

According to the game and event regulations of 2. Basketball-Bundesliga GmbH, the ProB "in the 2017/2018 season a maximum of two players per team who are not citizens of EU member states or states whose citizens in Germany have the same freedom of movement rules (freedom of movement) as EU citizens enjoy. "

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, a new regulation will come into force that relates to players of German and foreign nationality who played as young people for a member club of the German Basketball Federation. Thus, players who do not have German citizenship can be equated with German players if they meet at least one of the following requirements:

• The player has had the right to participate for a club that was part of the German Basketball Federation during this time and was active in the game operations of the German Basketball Federation or its regional divisions (regional association, district) for at least a full season and before reaching the age group U15 took part.

• The player has held a license or authorization to participate in an association that belongs to the DOSB (German Olympic Sports Association) for at least a full season and before reaching the age group U15. The player must have actively participated in the association's game operations or competitions during this season. Written evidence from the relevant association must be submitted.

• From the age group U15 up to and including the age group U19, the player had at least three full seasons of participation in one or more clubs that belonged to the German Basketball Federation during this time and were active in the game of German basketball during this time Federal or its regional divisions (regional association, district) participated.

Season Notes

• As relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga ProA , the ETB Essen (northern season) and the Dresden Titans (southern season) entered the league.
• Newcomers from the regional leagues were Rot-Weiss Cuxhaven (later renamed Cuxhaven Baskets) (champions of the 1st Regionalliga North), the EN Baskets Schwelm (champions of the 1st Regionalliga West), the BBC Coburg (champions of the 1st Regionalliga South-East ) as well as the KIT SC Karlsruhe (runner-up of the 1st Regionalliga Süd-West; title winner Schwenningen had been refused the right to participate.)
• The Licher BasketBears withdrew from the game after the end of the 2016/17 season, and the license was transferred to the Gießen 46ers Rackelos (youth development team for the first division Gießen 46ers ).
• The BG Karlsruhe was refused the license, the RSV Eintracht as a sporty relegated from the northern relay received the starting place that had become free. Since the RSV Eintracht was assigned to the northern relay, the Iserlohn Kangaroos were placed in the southern relay differently than in the first drafts.
• The Scanplus Baskets Elchingen and the Rostock Seawolves  reached the final: Rostock won 94:93 in the first leg, Elchingen won the second leg in their own hall with 85:67 and was thus the champions.
• At the beginning of April 2018, the Elchinger team announced that they had not  submitted a license application for the 2nd Bundesliga ProA .

Main round

Placements after the main round

	= Places that entitle to participate in the championship round
	= Places that qualify for participation in the relegation round

North						south
#	team	Victories	low lying	Victory points	Basket points	team	Victories	low lying	Victory points	Basket points
1	Artland Dragons Quakenbrück	16	6th	32	1753: 1643	ScanPlus Baskets Elchingen	18th	4th	36	1911: 1613
2	FC Schalke 04	16	6th	32	1718: 1625	Gießen 46ers Rackelos (NG)	16	6th	32	1799: 1646
3	Rostock Seawolves	14th	8th	28	1752: 1611	Dragons Rhondorf	15th	7th	30th	1761: 1689
4th	VfL Bochum	13	9	26th	1750: 1700	Iserlohn Kangaroos	15th	7th	30th	1717: 1670
5	SSV locomotive Bernau	13	9	26th	1764: 1699	Skyliners Frankfurt II	13	9	26th	1659: 1661
6th	MTV dukes Wolfenbüttel	13	9	26th	1765: 1715	EN Baskets Schwelm (N)	11	11	22nd	1695: 1768
7th	BAWE Oldenburg / OTB	10	12	20th	1646: 1633	Dresden Titans (A)	10	12	20th	1643: 1671
8th	Itzehoe Eagles	9	13	18th	1818: 1853	Bayer Leverkusen	10	12	20th	1726: 1775
9	SC Rist Wedel	9	13	18th	1656: 1715	FC Bayern Munich II	8th	14th	16	1594: 1619
10	ETB Essen (A)	8th	14th	16	1633: 1772	TG Würzburg	6th	16	12	1552: 1662
11	RSV Eintracht	6th	16	12	1643: 1821	BBC Coburg (N)	6th	16	12	1706: 1770
12	Cuxhaven Baskets (N)	5	17th	10	1648: 1759	KIT SC Karlsruhe (N)	4th	18th	8th	1526: 1745

(A) = ProA relegated / (N) = Newcomer and newcomer from the regional leagues / (NG) = New establishment

Statistics best

• Only values ​​from first round matches are taken into account

Teams

category	north		south
	Best value	Worst	Best value	Worst
defensive	Rostock (ø 73.2)	Itzehoe (ø 84.2)	Elchingen (ø 73.3)	Leverkusen (ø 80.7)
offensive	Itzehoe (ø 82.6)	Food (ø 74.2)	Elchingen (ø 86.7)	Karlsruhe (ø 69.4)

Play-offs

Round of 16							Quarter finals							Semifinals							final
N1	Artland	95	70	90
S8	Leverkusen	71	84	75			N1	Artland	83	78
S4	Iserlohn	90	78				S4	Iserlohn	90	79
N5	Bernau	72	76											N3	Rostock	81	94
N3	Rostock	93	68											S4	Iserlohn	66	87
S6	Schwelm	68	62				S2	to water	86	69	89
S2	to water	90	78				N3	Rostock	93	68	93
N7	Oldenburg	84	71																		N3	Rostock	94	67
S3	Rhöndorf	76	91																		S1	Elchingen	93	85
N6	Wolfenbüttel	83	103				N2	Schalke	71	64	81
N2	Schalke	75	73				N6	Wolfenbüttel	69	85	69
S7	Dresden	67	70											S1	Elchingen	90	65	78
N4	Bochum	83	78	82										N2	Schalke	54	73	67
S5	Frankfurt	87	70	60			S1	Elchingen	88	63	82
S1	Elchingen	99	100				N4	Bochum	68	79	72
N8	Itzehoe	64	73

Relegation rounds

= Descent

north						south
#	team	Victories	low lying	Points	Basket points	team	Victories	low lying	Points	Basket points
1	ETB Housing Baskets	10	16	20th	1965: 2128	Bayern Munich II	9	17th	18th	1880: 1919
2	SC Rist Wedel	10	16	20th	1950: 2025	TG S.Oliver Würzburg	9	17th	16	1881: 1954
3	RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf	9	17th	18th	1958: 2119	BBC Coburg	8th	18th	16	2009: 2081
4th	Cuxhaven Baskets	7th	19th	14th	2000: 2088	KIT SC Gequos	6th	20th	12	1808: 2042

Honors

Player of the month

• October: Courtney Belger (SG,, FC Schalke 04 Basketball)
• November: Kameron Taylor (SG ,, Dragons Rhöndorf)
• December: Kameron Taylor (SG,, Dragons Rhöndorf)
• January: Kameron Taylor (SG,, Dragons Rhöndorf)
• February: Kameron Taylor (SG,, Dragons Rhöndorf)
• March: Donte Nicholas (PF,, Iserlohn Kangaroos)
• April: Brandon Lockhart (PG ,, Rostock Seawolfes)

Youngster of the month

• October: Marcel Keßen (PF ,, BAWE OTB)
• November: Robert Drijenčić (PG ,, BAWE OTB)
• December: Karim Jallow (SG, / , FC Bayern Basketball II)
• January: Robert Drijenčić (PG ,, BAWE OTB)
• February: Dejan Kovačević (PF / SF ,, TG s.Oliver Würzburg)
• March: Alexander Angerer (PF,, VfL Bochum)
• April: Denis Teucher (PF,, Rostock Seawolves)

Awards

The winners of the awards for the entire season were announced on June 7, 2018.

• Player of the Year: Kameron Taylor (SG,, Dragons Rhöndorf)
• Youngster of the year: Karim Jallow (SG,, FC Bayern Basketball II)
• Trainer of the year: Dario Jerkić ( , ScanPlus Baskets Elchingen)

Web links

• 2. Basketball Bundesliga | News ProB - Current news from the ProB on the official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daniel Müller: 2. Basketball Bundesliga: License statute from 2016/17. (PDF (569 KB)) 2. Basketball Bundesliga , September 19, 2016, accessed on October 1, 2016 (version from September 30, 2016). 
2. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Spiel-und-Veranstaltungsordnung-ab-2017_2018.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/licensing-20172018/
4. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/kit-sc-karlsruhe-in-der-prob-villingen-schwenningen-abhaben-bg-karlsruhe-in-berendung/
5. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/giessen-46ers-ii-neu-in-der-prob/
6. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/bg-karlsruhe-tritt-nicht-in-der-prob-an-eintracht-rueckt-nach-iserlohn-spielt-im-sueden/
7. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/elchingen-ist-prob-meister-1718/
8. ↑ https://scanplusbaskets.de/index.php/newsfeed-baskets/336-proa-ja-aber-nicht-in-diesem-jahr
9. ↑ Performer of the year 2017/2018. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , May 31, 2017, accessed on June 7, 2018 (Facebook post).