IBA National League Men’s Division 1 1993-94

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Delta Notre Dame	14	12	2			24
Dungannon	14	11	3			22
Marian	14	9	5			18
Marathon	14	7	7			14
St. Paul’s Killarney	14	6	8			12
Slevin Group Mid Sutton-Baldoyle	14	5	9			10
St. Gall’s	14	4	10			8
Tolka Rovers	14	2	12			4

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

IBA National Basketball League Men’s Division 1 1994-95

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Kerry Spring Water Killarney	16	13	3			42
North Monastery 96’ers	16	13	3			42
*Dungannon	16	11	5			38
Sligo Dairies	16	10	6			36
Marathon Limerick	16	9	7			34
Tolka Rovers	16	6	10			28
Mid Sutton-Baldoyle	16	5	11			26
Marian	16	4	12			24
St. Gall’s	16	1	15			18

IBA National Basketball League Men’s Division 1 1995-96

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Marian	14	14	0			42
Queen’s Strongbow	14	11	3			36
Sligo Dairies	14	10	4			34
Tolka Rovers	14	9	5			32
Marathon Limerick	14	5	9			24
St. Gall’s	14	5	9			24
Mid Sutton-Baldoyle	14	1	13			16
Trident	14	1	13			16

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Queen’s Strongbow	80	Sligo Dairies	102
	Tolka Rovers	96	Marian	115
	Final
	Sligo Dairies	85	Marian	78

IBA National League Men’s Division 1 1996-97

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Longnecks Ballina	14	11	3			36
Dungannon	14	11	3			36
Mid Sutton-Baldoyle	14	10	4			34
Riverisland Castleisland	14	9	5			32
Tridents	14	5	9			24
Tolka Rovers	14	4	10			22
St. Gall’s	14	3	11			20
Burger King Limerick	14	3	11			20

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Final
	Mid Sutton-Baldoyle	89	Longnecks Ballina	63

IBA Men’s Division 1 1997-98

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Sligo Dairies	18	14	4			46
Waterford Crystal	18	13	5			44
Burger King Limerick	18	12	6			42
Tolka Rovers	18	10	8			38
Mid Sutton-Baldoyle	18	10	8			38
Riverisland Castleisland	18	8	10			34
Team Oscar Tridents	18	5	13			28
St. Gall’s	18	0	18			18

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Waterford Crystal	87	Limerick	75
	Sligo Dairies	74	Tolka Rovers	67
	Final
	Waterford Crystal	90	Sligo Dairies	68

Note: Division 1 was merged with the Super League in 1998 and recreated as a second level in 2001. There was no second level at National League level from 1998-2001.

IBA Men’s Division 1 2001-02

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Longnecks Ballina	11	9	2			18
*Queens University Belfast	13	9	4			18
*Neptune B	11	9	2			18
*Moycullen	12	8	4			16
Castleisland	12	6	6			12
Tegral Athy	12	5	7			10
Westaro Castlebar	12	5	7			10
Lundy Foods Ballina	12	3	9			6
Crescent	13	0	13			0

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Longnecks Ballina	77	ADC Moycullen	52
	Neptune	70	Queens University	67
	Final
	Longnecks Ballina	83	Neptune	76

IBA Men’s Division 1 2002-03

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
*Longnecks Ballina	14	13	1			26
*Moycullen	14	11	3			22
*Queens University Belfast	14	11	3			22
*Westaro Castlebar	14	8	6			16
Tyrone Towers	14	4	10			8
Longford Falcons	14	3	11			6
Lundy Foods Ballina	14	3	11			6
Newport	14	3	11			6

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
	Longnecks Ballina	85	Westaro Castlebar	73
	Moycullen	76	Queens University	77
	Final
	Longnecks Ballina	82	Ballina	72

The Men’s Division 1 was the 2nd Level of the IBA National Basketball League from 1993-2003. There was automatic Promotion and Relegation to and from the Super League.

Delta Notre Dame of Firhouse, playing in the National Basketball Arena, won the Division in 1993-94 by one game from Dungannon of Tyrone. The following season Killarney and North Monastery 96ers of Cork finished tied at the top. Marian, from South-East Dublin, ran away with the title in 1995-96, winning all fourteen games, with Queen’s University in second. Sligo All-Stars won the Top four Playoffs.

Ballina (Mayo) and Dungannon finished tied at the top in 1996-97 with MSB of North Dublin winning the Playoffs. Sligo won the title in 1997-98 but lost the Playoff Final to Waterford.

The Second Level was merged with the Super League after the 1997-98 season and re-established in 2001. Ballina won the Playoff Final in 2001-02, and completed the double in 2002-03.

In 2003 The irish Basketball Association underwent a rebranding as Basketball Ireland.

References

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(1995) “Budweiser League Final Standings”. IBA Official Basketball Magazine. Number 30. March 1995 pg. 24

(1995) “Gateaux Women’s League Final Standing”. IBA Official Basketball Magazine. Number 30. March 1995 pp. 30

(1996) “Tralee Tops in Budweiser Superleague”. IBA Official Basketball Magazine. Number 33. April 1996. pg. 16

(1996) “Tralee Tops in Budweiser SuperleagueMarian: Back in big-time after unbeaten campaign”. IBA Official Basketball Magazine. Number 33. April 1996. pg. 27

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(1996) “MSB return to top flight”. IBA Official Basketball Magazine. Number 33. April 1996. pp. 29

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Websites

[1] Basketball Ireland (2018) History [Internet] Available from: http://www.basketballireland.ie/history/ [Accessed 26 May 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to John Folan.

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