IBA Men’s Super League 1993-94

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Jameson St. Vincent’s	14	11	3			22
Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	14	9	5			18
Connacht Gold Ballina	14	9	5			18
Neptune	14	8	6			16
Star of the Sea	14	6	8			12
Queens Strongbow	14	5	9			10
Oscar Taylor’s Killester	14	5	9			10
North Monastery 96’ers	14	3	11			6

[8][31]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Promotion/Relegation Playoff 1st Leg
	Dungannon	70	Queens Strongbow	80
	Promotion/Relegation Playoff 2nd Leg
	Queens Strongbow	93	Dungannon	62

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals Leg 1
	Connacht Gold Ballina	55	Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	98
	Neptune	59	Jameson St. Vincent’s	69
	Semi-Finals Leg 2
	Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	95	Connacht Gold Ballina	66
	Jameson St. Vincent’s	81	Neptune	82
	Final
	Jameson St. Vincent’s	82	Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	75

[2][9][32][33][34]

IBA Men’s Super League 1994-95

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Neptune	14	10	4			34
*Oscar Taylor’s Killester	14	9	5			32
*Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	14	8	6			30
*Delta Notre Dame	14	8	6			30
*Chambourcy Ballina	14	7	7			28
*Star of the Sea	14	6	8			26
Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	14	6	8			26
Queen’s Strongbow	14	2	12			18

[3]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Round 1		1st Leg
12.03.1995	Neptune	107	Marian	83
12.03.1995	Oscar Taylors Killester	100	MSB	88
12.03.1995	Chambourcy Ballina	107	Sligo Dairies	83
12.03.1995	Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	97	Dungannon	92
12.03.1995	Delta Notre Dame	91	Marathon	71
12.03.1995	Queen’s Strongbow	61	Kerry Spring Water	83
12.03.1995	Star of the Sea	108	North Monastery	77
12.03.1995	Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	118	Tolka Rovers	65
	Round 1		2nd Leg
19.03.1995	Kerry Spring Water	122	Queens Strongbow	79
	(Kerry win 206-144 on agg.)
19.03.1995	MSB	91	Oscar Taylors Killester	122
	(Killester won 222-179 on agg.)
19.03.1995	Sligo Dairies	80	Chambourcy Ballina	77
	(Ballina won 184-163 on agg.)
19.03.1995	Dungannon	102	Garveys Tigers Tralee	92
	(Dungannon won 197-175 on Agg.)
19.03.1995	Marian	74	Neptune	94
	(Neptune won 201-157 on agg.)
19.03.1995	Marathon Limerick	86	Delta Notre Dame	90
	(Notre Dame won 181-157 on agg.)
19.03.1995	Tolka Rovers	100	Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	88
	(St. Vincent’s won 206-165 on agg.)
19.03.1995	North Monastery	82	Star of the Sea	90
	(Star won 198-159 on agg.)
	Quarter-Finals
24.03.1995	Neptune	74	Star of the Sea	73
24.03.1995	Delta Notre Dame	77	Chambourcy Ballina	70
25.03.1995	Oscar Taylors Killester	70	Kerry Spring Water	75
25.03.1995	Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	W	Dungannon	L
	Semi-Finals		@NBA, Tallaght
25.03.1995	Kerry Spring Water	75	Oscar Taylors Killester	70
25.03.1995	Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	78	Dungannon	70
	Final		@NBA, Tallaght
26.03.1995	Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	103	Delta Notre Dame	88

Reference: [37-43]

IBA Men’s Super League 1995-96

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	18	14	4			46
Marathon Sport’s St. Vincent’s	18	13	5			44
TNT Killester	18	11	7			40
Star of the Sea	18	11	7			40
Denny Notre Dame	18	10	8			38
Neptune	18	9	9			36
Kerry Spring Water Killarney	18	8	10			34
North Monastery 96’ers	18	7	11			32
Chambourcy Ballina #(-1)	18	6	12			29
Dungannon	18	1	17			20

[4]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Marathon St. Vincent’s	93	TNT Killester	83
	Star of the Sea	88	Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	74
	Final
	Star of the Sea	106	Marathon St. Vincent’s	83

[5]

IBA Men’s Super League 1996-97

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Neptune Camlec	18	17	1			52
Star of the Sea	18	15	3			48
Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	18	12	6			42
Denny Notre Dame	18	11	7			40
Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	18	8	10			34
TNT Killester	18	7	11			32
Kerry Spring Water Killarney	18	7	11			32
AMEV Marian # (-1)	18	6	12			29
Sligo Dairies	18	4	14			26
Queen’s Annadale	18	3	15			24

[12]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Neptune Camlec	98	Denny Notre Dame	96
	Final
	Star of the Sea	90	Neptune Camlec	85

[13][14]

IBA Men’s Super League 1997-98

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Star of the Sea	18	17	1			52
Denny Notre Dame	18	13	5			44
Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	18	10	8			38
Killester	18	10	8			38
Dungannon	18	9	9			36
Longnecks Ballina	18	8	10			34
UCD Marian	18	7	11			32
Kerry Spring Water Killarney	18	6	12			30
Neptune	18	5	13			28
Garvey’s Tigers Tralee	18	5	13			28

[15]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Star of the Sea	94	Killester	72
	Denny Notre Dame	97	Marathon Sp St. Vincent’s	70
	Final
	Star of the Sea	92	Denny Notre Dame	74

[16]

IBA Men’s Super League 1998-99

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Star of the Sea	26	21	5			68
Waterford Crystal	26	19	7			64
Killester	26	17	9			60
Esat Telecom Blue Demons	26	17	9			60
Marathon Sports St. Vincent’s	26	17	9			60
Denny Notre Dame	26	16	10			58
Burger King Limerick	26	12	14			50
Neptune	26	12	14			50
UCD Marian	26	12	14			50
Kerry Spring Water Killarney	26	11	15			48
Sligo Dairies	26	10	16			46
Dungannon	26	8	18			42
Dublin Bay Vikings	26	8	18			42
Tolka Rovers	26	2	24			30

[17]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Quarter-Finals
	Star of the Sea	82	Neptune	59
	Waterford Crystal	83	Burger King Limerick	80
	Killester		Denny Notre Dame
	Esat Blue Demons	51	Marathon Sp St. Vincent’s	80
	Semi-Finals
	Killester	95	Waterford Crystal	65
	Star of the Sea	72	Marathon Sp St. Vincent’s	86
	Final
	Marathon Sp St. Vincent’s	86	Killester	78

[18][19][20]

IBA Men’s Super League 1999-2000

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Neptune	26	23	3			46
Esat Blue Demons	26	19	7			38
St. Vincent’s	26	18	8			36
Denny Notre Dame	26	17	9			34
Star of the Sea	26	17	9			34
Kerry Spring Water Killarney	26	13	13			26
Killester	26	12	14			24
Hibernian UCD Marian	26	11	15			22
Tolka Rovers	26	10	16			20
Clare Jets	26	9	17			18
Waterford Crystal	26	9	17			18
Sligo Dairies	26	9	17			18
Burger King Limerick	26	8	18			16
Dungannon	26	7	19			14

[21]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Quarter-Finals
	Neptune	76	UCD Marian	70
	Esat Telecom Blue Demons	95	Killester	93
	KSW Killarney	87	St. Vincent’s	106
	Denny Notre Dame	85	Star of the Sea	76
	Semi-Finals
	Denny Notre Dame	83	Neptune	71
	St. Vincent’s	70	Esat Telecom Blue Demons	68
	Final
	Denny Notre Dame	93	St. Vincent’s	74

[22][23]

IBA Men’s Super League 2000-01

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Thorn Killester	21	17	4			34
Star of the Sea	23	16	7			32
Burger King Limerick	22	15	7			30
Big Al’s Notre Dame	23	15	8			30
Frosties Tigers Tralee	21	14	7			28
Hibernian UCD Marian	22	14	8			28
O’Hagan Saints	23	14	9			28
Waterford Crystal	21	13	8			26
Neptune	22	13	9			26
Esat Demons	22	7	15			14
Tolka Rovers	20	6	14			12
Tyrone Towers	23	4	19			8
Abbey Foods Sligo	21	3	18			6
Killarney	22	2	10			4

[24]

League abondoned 7 March 2001 due to outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and Killester declared champions 29 March 2001

IBA Men’s Super League 2001-02

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Waterford Crystal	26	21	5			42
*Frosties Tigers Tralee	26	20	6			40
*Killester	26	18	8			36
*Limerick	26	18	8			36
*Esat Demons	26	15	11			30
*Neptune	26	15	11			30
St. Vincent’s	26	14	12			28
UCD Marian	25	12	13			24
SX3 Star	25	11	14			22
Notre Dame	26	11	15			22
Gleneagle Lakers	26	10	16			20
Tolka Rovers	26	8	18			16
Abbey Foods Sligo	26	7	19			14
Tyrone Towers	26	1	15			2

[25]

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Pool A
*Limerick	2	2	0			4
*Waterford Crystal	2	1	1			2
Esat Demons	2	0	2			0
Pool B
DART Killester	2	2	0			4
Frosties Tigers Tralee	2	1	1			2
Neptune	2	0	2			0

[26][27]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	DART Killester	99	Waterford Crystal	81
	Limerick	85	Frosties Tigers Tralee	96
	Final
	Frosties Tigers Tralee	78	DART Killester	69

[26][27]

IBA Men’s Super League 2002-03

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Neptune	22	18	4			36
*SX3 Star	22	16	6			32
*Notre Dame	22	14	8			28
*ITP Saints	22	14	8			28
*UCD Marian	22	13	9			26
*UCC Demons	22	12	10			24
*Burger King Limerick	22	12	10			24
*DART Killester	22	11	11			22
Tolka Rovers	22	7	15			14
Gleneagle Lakers	22	5	17			10
Waterford Crystal	22	5	17			10
Tigers Tralee	22	5	17			10

[28]

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Quarter-Finals
	DART Killester	75	Neptune	78
	Notre Dame	114	UCC Demons	90
	ITP Saints	82	UCD Marian	74
	SX3 Star	97	Burger King Limerick	89
	Semi-Finals
	Neptune	80	ITP Saints	90
	Notre Dame	99	SX3 Star	81
	Final
	ITP Saints	115	Notre Dame	84

[29]

The National Basketball League was again split into two levels in 1993, with St. Vincent’s winning at their third attempt in 1993-94, defeating Garvey’s Tigers Tralee 82-75 in the Final. The Dublin club would win again the following year 103-88 against Notre Dame.

St. Vincent’s  would be in the Final for the fifth year running in 1994-95 losing to Belfast’s Star of the Sea 106-83. This would start a run of four wins in a row for the Belfast side, defeating St. Vincent’s Glasnevin 106-83 in 1995-96 and Neptune of Cork 90-85 in 1996-97. They would top this off with another Final victory in 1997-98, 92-74 against Notre Dame, another agonising defeat for the Firhouse club based in the National Basketball arena in Tallaght.

St. Vincent’s Glasnevin would again take the honours in 1998-99, defeating fellow Dubliners Killester 86-78 in the Final. That season would see the Super League and Division 1 merged yet again after being split into two levels since 1993. The 1999-2000 season would finally see another Dublin team, Notre Dame make the breakthrough, beating St. Vincent’s 93-74.

The 2000-01 season would be cut short due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth-disease and the title would be awarded to Killester who were ahead on points. They would lose the Final the following year 78-69 to Tralee Tigers, a Kerry team finally winning the title after a long absence from the winners roll for the county. St. Vincent’s, now known as Saints would again be the winners in the 2002-03 season, beating Dublin rivals  Notre Dame 115-84 in the Final.

This would be the end of another era as the Association changed its name to Basketball Ireland in 2003, and reverted to a two-division format, with the both the Super League and Division 1 divided into Northern and Southern Conferences.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to John Folan.

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