Scotland national basketball team

Scotland

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FIBA ranking	88 (T)
Joined FIBA	1947
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	BasketballScotland
Coach	Tom Campbell
Olympic Games
Appearances	None
FIBA World Cup
Appearances	None
EuroBasket
Appearances	2 (1951, 1957)
Uniforms
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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.

In 2005 Scotland, along with England and their counterparts in Wales combined forces to form the Great Britain national basketball team, with the target goal to field a competitive team capable of winning medals at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Despite the merge, the Scotland national team is still competing in the FIBA Europe's Division C. Scotland's direct affiliation to FIBA will end 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

Eurobasket 1951

The Scottish team's first European championship competition was at Eurobasket 1951 in Paris. They lost their 8 games and finished 16th place out of 18. They outranked Luxembourg, who had had the misfortune of being in a 5-team preliminary group instead of a 4-team group (and losing all of their games), 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.

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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 Summer Olympics

yet to qualify

Performance at FIBA World championships

yet to qualify

Performance at Eurobasket

Year	Position	Note	Tournament	Host
1951	16		EuroBasket 1951	Paris, France
1957	15		EuroBasket 1957	Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Games Played	Won	Lost	Points Scored	Points Conceded	Point Difference	Final Place
5	2	3	366	429	−63	6th

Current roster

#	Player	Position	Height	Current club
4	Garreth Lodge	Point Guard	1.85	Edinburgh Kings
5	Patrick Campbell	Shooting Guard	1.93	Edinburgh Kings
6	Grant Gibson	Point Guard	1.82	E.Lothian B.
7	Laurie Costello	Point Guard	1.87	Edinburgh Kings
8	Josh Crolley	Small Forward	1.98	Troon Tornadoes
9	Daniel Donnelly	Small Forward	1.98	Troon Tornadoes
10	Michael Lynn	Forward		St. Mirren
11	Ross Campbell	Forward	1.98	Troon Tornadoes
12	Steven Leven	Forward	1.97	Arkadikos
13	Thomas Pearson	Center	2.00	Manchester Magic
14	Ikemefuna Attah	Power Forward	1.98	Tees Valley Mohawks
15	Simon Flockhart	Center	2.10	Edinburgh Kings

See also

• Kieron Achara
• Robert Archibald
• Iain MacLean

• Boroughmuir Blaze
• Great Britain national basketball team
• Sport in Scotland
  • Basketball Scotland

External links

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