BI National League Women’s Division 1 2013-14

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Portlaoise Panthers	12	10	2			32
*Tm McCarthy’s St. Mary’s	12	8	4			28
*Tralee Imperials	12	8	4			28
*Oblate Dynamos	12	7	5			26
NUIG Mystics	12	5	7			22
IT Carlow	12	4	8			20
UL Huskies #(-1)	12	0	12			11

[1]

Date	Home Team		Away team
	Semi-Finals
	Team Tom McCarthy’s	44	Tralee Imperials	59
	Portlaoise Panthers	71	Oblate Dynamos	71
	Final
	Portlaoise Panthers	33	Tralee Imperials	51

[2][3]

BI National League Women’s Division 1 2014-15

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Portlaoise Panthers	10	10	0			30
*Team Denjoes American Style [St. Mary’s]	10	5	5			20
*Oblate Dynamos	10	5	5			20
*Garvey’s Tralee Imperials	10	4	6			18
NUIG Mystics	10	4	6			18
IT Carlow	10	2	8			14

[4]

Date	Home Team		Away team
	Semi-Finals 1st Leg
	Garvey’s Tralee Imperials	51	Portlaoise Panthers	62
	Oblate Dynamos	65	Team Denjoes American Style	64
	Semi-Finals 2nd Leg
	Portlaoise Panthers	50	Garvey’s Tralee Imperials	53
	Team Denjoes American Style	65	Oblate Dynamos	68
	Final
	Portlaoise Panthers	59	Oblate Dynamos	63

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BI National League Women’s Division 1 2015-16

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*NUIG Mystics	16	15	1			46
*Fr. Mathews	16	12	4			40
*Team Denjoes American Style	16	11	5			38
*Oblate Dynamos	16	9	7			34
*Ulster Rockets	16	8	8			32
*Team Garvey’s Tralee	16	7	9			30
IT Carlow	16	6	10			28
Marble City Hawks	16	4	12			24
Longford Falcons	16	0	16			16

[5]

Date	Home Team		Away team
	Quarter-Finals
	Oblate Dynamos	45	Ulster Rockets	70
	Team Denjoes American Style	57	Team Garvey’s Tralee	41
	Semi-Final
	NUIG Mystics	68	Ulster Rockets	58
	Fr. Mathews	68	Team Denjoes American Style	60
	Final
	NUIG Mystics	79	Fr. Mathews	61

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BI National League Women’s Division 1 2016-17

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
IT Carlow Basketball	12	11	1	771	678	33
UL Huskies	12	9	3	768	724	27
Marble City Hawks	12	7	5	709	670	21
Ulster Rockets	12	7	5	739	715	21
Ulster University Elks	12	3	9	755	817	9
Fr. Mathews	12	3	9	677	731	9
Oblate Dynamos	12	2	10	732	816	6

[7]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals (WIT)
25.03.2017	UL Huskies	57	Marble City Hawks	60
25.03.2017	IT Carlow Basketball	71	Ulster Rockets	54
	Final (LYIT)
01.04.2017	IT Carlow Basketball	47	Marble City Hawks	55

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BI WNL Division 1 2017-18

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Marble City Hawks	12	11	1	769	659	33
UL Huskies	12	7	5	803	744	21
Fr Mathews	12	7	5	809	775	21
Griffith College Swords Thunder	12	6	6	818	799	18
Meteors	12	6	6	714	701	18
FabPlus North West	12	3	9	718	854	9
Ulster University Elks	12	2	10	747	846	6

Reference: [9]

Date	Home Team		Away team
	Semi-Finals
18.03.18	Marble City Hawks	75	Griffith College Swords Thunder	52
18.03.18	UL Huskies	61	Fr. Mathews	73
	Final
24.03.18	Marble City Hawks	43	Fr. Mathews	48

References: [10]

BI WNL Division 1 2018-19

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Northern Conference
*Ulster University Elks	13	11	2	1099	920	33
*Trinity Meteors	13	8	5	883	832	24
Phoenix Rockets	13	6	7	995	935	18
Fabplus North West	13	4	9	782	957	12
Swords Thunder	13	3	10	873	1022	9
Southern Conference
*Maree	13	13	0	1072	689	39
*Portlaoise Panthers	13	10	3	945	837	30
Team Tom McCarthys St. Mary’s	13	5	8	865	864	15
UL Huskies	13	3	10	800	1036	9
Limerick Celtics	13	2	11	722	944	6

Reference: [11]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Quarter-Finals
23.03.19	Trinity Meteors	69	Phoenix Rockets	79
23.03.19	Portlaoise Panthers	58	Team Tom McCarthys St. Mary’s	62
	Semi-Finals
30.03.19	Ulster University Elks	83	Team Tom McCarthys St. Mary’s	68
30.03.19	Maree	84	Phoenix Rockets	76
	Final
14.04.19	Maree	73	Ulster University Elks	65

Reference: [12]

Report

Basketball Ireland rebranded the Super League as the Premier League in 2013, but Division 1 remained the same.

In 2013-14 Portlaoise Panthers won the Division 1 title, but lost the Playoff Final to Tralee Imperials 51-33. The following year saw a repeat of the previous year for Portlaoise, again winning the League title, this time undefeated, but again going down in the Playoff Final, losing this time 63-59 to Oblate Dynamoes of Dublin. They were, however, promoted to the Premier League.

In 2015-16, NUI Galway Mystics completed the League and Playoff double, winning 79-61 in the Final against Fr. Mathews of Cork. Again the League champions failed in the Playoff Final in 2016-17, as IT Carlow lost out to neighbours Marble City Hawks of Kilkenny, 55-47, but were promoted.

In 2017-18, Marble City Hawks continued the pattern of League winners failing in the Playoff Final, as they lost to Fr. Mathews 48-43. For 2018-19 the Division was split into Northern and Southern Conferences, with Conference champions, Maree of Galway and Ulster University Elks, successfully negotiating the Playoffs and meeting in the Final, which was won by Maree, 73-65.

References

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Sources

[1] (2014) “Basketball”. Irish Examiner. Monday, March 10, 2014. pp. 64-65.

[2] (2014) “Basketball”. Irish Examiner. Monday, March 17, 2014. pp. 62-63.

[3] (2014) “Basketball”. Irish Examiner. Monday, March 24, 2014. pp. 52-53.

Websites

[4] Basketball Ireland Comortais (2015) Women’s Division 1 2014-15 [Internet] Available from: http://bi.comortais.com/competition.aspx?oId=1001&id=1079 [Accessed 27 October 2016]

[5] Basketball Ireland (2016) Women’s Division 1 2015-16 [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/womensdivision1/ [Accessed 21 September 2016]

[6] Basketball Ireland (2016) Women’s Division 1 Playoffs 2015-16 [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/womensdivision1playoffs/ [Accessed 21 September 2016]

[7] Basketball Ireland (2017) Women’s Division 1 2016-17 [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/womensdivision1/ [Accessed 20 March 2017]

[8] Basketball Ireland (2017) Women’s Division 1 Playoffs 2016-17 [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/wd1playoffs [Accessed 28 March 2017]

[9] Basketball Ireland (2018) Womens Division 1 [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/womensdivision1/ [Accessed 26 March 2018]

[10] Basketball Ireland (2018) Womens Division 1 Top 4 PO [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/womensdivison1top4po/ [Accessed 26 March 2018]

[11] Basketball Ireland (2019) Womens Division One [Internet] Available from: https://www.basketballireland.ie/league/129829/ [Accessed 23 April 2019]

[12] Basketball Ireland (2019) Womens Division One [Internet] Available from: https://www.basketballireland.ie/league/137991/ [Accessed 23 April 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ann Hanley, Killester and Ireland National Team.

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