basketballscotland is the
governing body
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of the sport of
basketball
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in Scotland. The organisation manages national competitions and runs the
Scotland national basketball team.
They are also founder members of the reformed
Great Britain national basketball team
The Great Britain men's national basketball team (also known as GB Basketball or GB) represents Great Britain in international basketball competitions. The national team is administered by British Basketball.
The current governing body for th ...
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National leagues
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Scottish Basketball Championship Men
The Scottish Basketball Championship Men is the national basketball league of Scotland. The league forms the second and third tiers of British basketball (inline with the English Basketball League, National Basketball League) after the professi ...
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Scottish Basketball Championship Women
National teams
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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 ...
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Scotland women's national basketball team
The Scotland women's national basketball team represents the Scotland in international women's basketball competitions.
Competitions Olympic Games
World Championship
EuroBasket
External linksBasketball Scotland website
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See also
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Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland
Scotland is one of only six countries to have competed in every Commonwealth Games since the first Empire Games in 1930. The others are Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand and Wales. The Commonwealth Games is the only major multi-sport even ...
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Sport in Scotland
Sport plays a central role in Scottish culture. The temperate, oceanic climate has played a key part in the evolution of sport in Scotland, with all-weather sports like association football, rugby and golf dominating the national sporting cons ...
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Basketball
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Sport in Edinburgh
Basketball in Scotland
Scot
Scottish people or Scots (; ) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or ...
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