UEA Basketball

UEA Men's Basketball Team

The UEA Basketball team is a very international team. We are almost an even split of American players and non-American players. From the back row, left to right: we have Andy and Pete who are both from the UK, Greg an American and Dickinson Grad, Simon and James both from the UK, Bill from China's biggest basketball city, and Ben from Germany. On the bottom row from left to right we have Lee and Wen both from the same city in China as Bill, Me, Coach, Dwight an American representing West Philadelphia, Sean an American from Clementon, and Abi who's from London.

3-pointer from the corner

Foul shot

Our season so far has been slightly up and down. We have played very well together as a team, but struggle at times due to our lack of organized practice. We typically play games twice a week, Wednesday and Saturdays, and have practice on Sundays and Fridays. Friday's practice is the only practice that coach attends. He cannot make all of the commitments, even games on Wednesdays, due to his teaching job, and residence is about an hour away. This past Wednesday we played the best team in BUCS and lost by two. We compete in two separate leagues, BUCS and The English National League. The competition in the National League is much better than the competition in BUCS; typically the teams have bigger, more talented, but much older players. The game photos above are from a National League game against Bedford. As you can maybe tell from the photo the players are much older, late twenties, some in early thirties. Although the BUCS leagues is slightly less competitive than the National League, the players are all at University, and the game tends to have a much higher tempo and more athletic plays from the competition. Overall, both leagues are a lot of fun. I have had to miss some BUCS games due to class conflicts on Wednesdays, the National League games will not be missed since they are the more valuable games and on Saturdays.