Scotland men's national basketball team


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. 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

Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018
Scotland had surprising success in the Commonwealth games as they beat there neighbouring rival, England. They then went on too finish 4th in the competition.
This was big for Scottish Basketball as they were predicted to be knocked out of the competition in the first round.
Scotland won all games in their first round. This included beating England, India and Cameroon. Then proceeding to the next round to beat Nigeria. Finally Scotland were defeated by Australia in the semifinals.

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 Romania, who had dropped out of the tournament at the last minute.

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.
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

YearPositionNoteTournamentHost
195116EuroBasket 1951Paris, France
195715EuroBasket 1957Sofia, Bulgaria

Performance at the Commonwealth Games

Melbourne 2006

Games PlayedWonLostPoints ScoredPoints ConcededPoint DifferenceFinal Place
523366429−636th

Current roster

At the 2014 FIBA European Championship for Small Countries:

Past rosters

At the FIBA EuroBasket 2010 Division C:
#PlayerPositionHeightCurrent club
4Garreth LodgePoint Guard1.85Edinburgh Kings
5Patrick CampbellShooting Guard1.93Edinburgh Kings
6Grant GibsonPoint Guard1.82E.Lothian B.
7Laurie CostelloPoint Guard1.87Edinburgh Kings
8Josh CrolleySmall Forward1.98Troon Tornadoes
9Daniel DonnellySmall Forward1.98Troon Tornadoes
10Michael LynnForwardSt. Mirren
11Ross CampbellForward1.98Troon Tornadoes
12Steven LevenForward1.97Arkadikos
13Thomas PearsonCenter2.00Manchester Magic
14Ikemefuna AttahPower Forward1.98Tees Valley Mohawks
15Simon FlockhartCenter2.10Edinburgh Kings