Solent Stars
| Solent Stars | |||
| Founded | 1980 | ||
| resolution | 2007 | ||
| Hall | Fleming Park Leisure Center | ||
| owner | Bob Paulley | ||
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| Colours | Blue / white / yellow | ||
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| NBL play-offs 1984; National Cup 1982 to 1984; NBL Division One 1984, 1999 |
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The Solent Stars were a basketball club from Eastleigh in the urban area of Southampton , England . The club, founded in 1980, was very successful at the beginning of its history and won three cup competitions and one men's championship by 1984. In the 1982/83 and 1983/84 seasons they took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup and reached the quarter-final group stage in 1984, where they achieved three wins in six games, including an away win against the renowned Italian representative and later finalist Simac Milan . Because of the poorer direct comparison , however, they were eliminated together with the German representative BSC Saturn Cologne before the semi-finals. In the national champions' cup they were eliminated one year later in the first round against the French champions CSP Limoges . 1987 one was a founding member of the British Basketball League (BBL), which one belonged three seasons before one from the game enterprise. After the restart in the fourth English division, they won in 1999 under coach Alan Cunningham and with Colin Irish , both former “ Most Valuable Player ” (MVP) of the BBL, Division One, which is now located below the BBL. After taking third place in the 2001/02 season with, among other things, the later basketball Bundesliga player John Bynum , they ended up mostly in the lower third of the league now known as the "English Basketball League" (EBL). Until 2005, Joel Freeland, who was born in the region, played briefly in his youth, one of the most successful English basketball players with the stars. After the end of the 2006/07 season, the Fleming Park Leisure Center venue was canceled and the team was finally disbanded. With Team Solent , who play at St. Mary's Leisure Center in Southampton, there is a neighboring basketball team that has played in EBL Division 2 since 2011.
Web links
- Solent Stars Basketball Club - The Complete History - Homage on a blog by Jim Rumsey
Individual evidence
- ^ Cup Winners' Cup 1983–84 (sic!). Linguasport.com, accessed on May 26, 2013 (English / Spanish, overview of the results of the competition).
- ↑ Solent Stars collapse after shock eviction. Southern Daily Echo, September 6, 2007, accessed May 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Team Solent basketball - team details, stats, news, roster. Eurobasket.com, accessed on May 24, 2013 (English, club profile).