Scotland men's national basketball team

Scotland

FIBA ranking	88 (T)
Joined FIBA	1947
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	BasketballScotland
Coach	[1]
Olympic Games
Appearances	Not eligible to compete
FIBA World Cup
Appearances	None
EuroBasket
Appearances	2 (1951, 1957)
Home Away

The Scottish national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Scotland in international competition. They are organised by basketballscotland, the sport's governing body in Scotland, which in 2005, along with England and Wales merged to form the Great Britain national basketball team. The Scotland national team used to compete in the FIBA Europe's Division C. Scotland's direct affiliation to FIBA ended on 30 September 2016.^[2] To date, Scotland's main accomplishments were two qualifications to the EuroBasket, Europe's main basketball event. Further, the team won five bronze medals at the FIBA European Championship for Small Countries.

History[]

EuroBasket 1951[]

The Scottish team's first European championship competition was at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. They lost their eight games and finished 16th place out of 18. They outranked Luxembourg, who had had the misfortune of being in a five-team preliminary group instead of a four-team group (and losing all of their games), and Romania, who had dropped out of the tournament at the last minute.^[3]

EuroBasket 1957[]

Six years later, at the EuroBasket 1957 in Sofia, Scotland competed much better. There, the squad won one of its three preliminary round games to be relegated to the classification round. The first match in that round pitted Scotland against Albania, who had also not yet achieved a victory in EuroBasket competition. The Scots proved the better, 69–56. Afterwards, they lost their next six matches but showed considerable improvement from the last tournament. They competed against Austria and West Germany the whole game until they finally ceded by one point and five points respectively to finish the classification round 1–6 in 15th place overall, ahead of Albania which they beat twice.^[4]

Robert Archibald is Scotland's most well known basketball player. Because of his accomplishments he became an inspirational figure to basketball players throughout his home country.

Competitions[]

Performance at EuroBasket[]

Performance at the Commonwealth Games[]

Melbourne 2006[]

Game	Stage	Opponent	Score
1	Group A	Australia	129–52
2	Group A	India	67–57
3	Group A	Nigeria	91–83
4	5th–8th place Placement	South Africa	91–79
5	5th place match	Barbados	63–73

Current roster[]

At the 2014 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries:^[5] (last publicized squad)

Scotland men's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. 4 22 – (1992-02-28)28 February 1992 5 26 – (1987-12-07)7 December 1987 6 20 – (1993-07-17)17 July 1993 7 32 – (1982-01-05)5 January 1982 8 22 – (1992-03-11)11 March 1992 9 22 – (1992-06-01)1 June 1992 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Glasgow Rocks 10 25 – (1989-03-02)2 March 1989 11 23 – (1991-06-08)8 June 1991 12 25 �� (1988-10-05)5 October 1988 13 29 – (1984-07-11)11 July 1984 14 35 – (1979-06-19)19 June 1979 15 29 – (1984-08-24)24 August 1984	Head coach Assistant coach(es) Peter Duncan Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 7 July 2014

Past rosters[]

At the FIBA EuroBasket 2010 Division C:

See also[]

• Kieron Achara
• Robert Archibald
• Iain MacLean
• Boroughmuir Blaze
• Great Britain national basketball team
• Sport in Scotland
• Basketball Scotland
• Andrew Joseph Steven

References[]

External links[]

• Scotland Basketball Records at FIBA Archive
• Eurobasket.com – Scotland Men National Team
• BasketballScotland
• Presentation on Facebook