Changes afoot in Nottingham ahead of the new Basketball season with National Basketball League Division One outfit, Nottingham Hoods, welcoming on-board both a new co-owner, and a new head coach as the excitement continues to build. A narrow defeat at the weekend, as the Hoods welcomed a USA Select to the Wildcats Arena, was certainly…
Sitting joint-fourth (fifth) in the National Basketball League Division One, level with both Newcastle University and Loughborough Riders on a dozen points, it’s been a mixed opening half to the season for the Nottingham Hoods basketball team. The season actually began, back in early October, with back-to-back success at their Wildcats Arena, defeating first Derby…
It seems we’ve forgotten our roots at Nottingham Sport, in truth we’re struggling for journalists as nobody wants to work for free… And that’s why some of our local sides, unfortunately like Nottingham Wildcats, have been ‘pushed to the side’ when it comes to coverage. As Editor, I feel for those ‘full time’ media outlets…
Nottingham Wildcats legend Siobhán Prior has been announced as a Club Representative on the Women’s British Basketball League board, taking up a new role in growing the sport in this country. A former England International who won a Commonwealth Silver Medal, a player who represented her hometown club winning countless silverware and who is currently…
It’s been a frustrating start to the season so far for Nottingham Wildcats who sit comfortably in mid table of the WBBL having won two and lost two of their Women’s British Basketball League games whilst the side last weekend crashed to defeat against Leicester Riders in the second round of the WBBL Cup. This…
Nottingham Wildcats face Manchester Met Mystics tomorrow night at the Wildcats Arena, looking for their first win of the WBBL Championship season after their first match at Newcastle Eagles last weekend ended in defeat. The Wildcats lost 69-65 on the road in a tight contested match at the Vertu Motors Arena. Nottingham leading from the…
In exactly a month’s time, on September 24th at the Wildcats Arena sitting high up on the Sneinton & Bakersfield border NG3, Nottingham Wildcats will begin their WBBL campaign with the hosting of Gloucester City Queens, where they’ll look to go even bigger and better than the season before, following a fifth place regular championship…
The WBBL Playoff dream for Nottingham Wildcats is over for the 2021/22 season as they were beaten at Sevenoaks Suns by the narrowest of margins in a semi-final in Surrey that went the distance. The home side eventually coming through to win a thriller, 66-64. The Suns who were favourites after finishing the regular season…
Nottingham Wildcats have reached the semi-finals of the WBBL Playoffs after beating Leicester Riders at the Morningside Arena on Sunday to face Sevenoaks Suns next week, in a place for the final match and some potential silverware this season. After two previous defeats against the Riders who finished their regular league campaign in fourth place,…
Nottingham Wildcats won their last game of the WBBL regular season at the weekend to end the campaign in fifth place and in doing so they’ll now face Leicester Riders in the Playoff Quarter Finals on May 1st. The Wildcats beat Essex Rebels 91-88 in a tense game down south on Sunday with some impressive…
A hugely impressive performance by Nottingham Wildcats this afternoon severely dented visiting opponents Sevenoaks Suns title ambitions but more importantly in this neck of the woods put back on track the home sides own playoff aspirations following a run of just one victory in five. Nottingham in ninth in the WBBL table close to two…
The Playoff dream for Nottingham Hoods is over but what a fabulous year it’s been for a team who in 2020/21 finished bottom of the NBL Division One table. Resurged with vengeance the Hoods class of 2021/22 has been inspiring for those lucky enough to witness them in action and it took table topping regular…
A win against Worthing Thunder at the weekend assured Nottingham Hoods joined NBL Division One regular season winners Team Solent Kestrels, second placed Thames Valley Cavaliers and sixth spot Hemel Storm (who beat third placed Derby Trailblazers) in this season’s Playoff semi-finals. The quarter final tie against Worthing who finished fifth, a place behind Nottingham…
Nottingham Hoods travel to the Noel Baker Academy in Alvaston on Saturday as they face local rivals Derby Trailblazers in the NBL Division One with the winner potentially closing the gap on second placed Thames Valley Cavaliers in the table. The Hoods are currently fourth with an identical record to third placed Derby (16-7) with…
It was an in-different couple of days for both our men’s and women’s elite basketball teams this weekend as Nottingham Wildcats and Nottingham Hoods bounced back from defeats on Saturday to win on Sunday with much needed points in the league added. On Saturday, Nottingham Wildcats were knocked out of the WBBL Trophy at the…
Nottingham Hoods beat London Lions II on Saturday to register a thirteenth win in eighteen NBL Division One games with the side now fourth in the table just two points behind third spot Thames Valley Cavaliers, four behind second placed Worthing Thunder (who have played two games more) and eight behind leaders Team Solent Kestrels…
After a two-week league layoff, Nottingham Wildcats are back in action this weekend as they take on Essex Rebels at the Wildcats Arena tomorrow evening (7pm tip off). Despite thumping Cardiff Met Archers 117-82 last weekend in the WBBL Trophy quarter final, Kenrick Liburd’s team have had a tough bread and butter campaign so far,…
Back-to-back victories over the Bradford Dragons last weekend pushed the Nottingham Hoods into third place in the National Basketball League Division One, and they’ll be looking to remain there this weekend when they take to the court against Newcastle University. Against the Dragons, the Hoods would win the home clash 93-83, before a trip to…
After a double-header, which saw consecutive victories over Essex Rebels (pictured) and Oaklands Wolves, in the middle of January, at the Wildcats Arena, the Nottingham Hoods would see the following weekends’ game, against the Reading Rockets, postponed, thus stifling the momentum they’d built up. However, this weekend, Ben Stanley’s Hoods will go again, with another…
In the first of a series of looking back, looking forward, with Nottingham Hoods Basketball’s Head Coach Ben Stanley, the Nottingham Sport looked at their first game of 2022, a 94-82 road win at Loughborough Riders, and ahead to this coming weekend’s double-header, at home to the Essex Rebels, and Oaklands Wolves. Against the Riders,…
