Nottingham Hoods Basketball Club play at the Wildcats Arena and are currently in Division One of the National Basketball League (NBL).
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…
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…
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,…
Nottinghamshire’s premier basketball side, the Nottingham Hoods, who play in the National Basketball League Division One, have had a decent, first half to the current campaign. Here, Head Coach Ben Stanley, looked back on all that has happened, and ahead as to what is to come, on-court, for the Hoods. “The new look Nottingham Hoods…
It’s beginning to look like a very good campaign for Nottingham Hoods who won their seventh and eighth successive games of the season this weekend. On Saturday, Nottingham made it four wins out of four so far in the league, taking on Reading Rockets who in turn took the Hoods all the way to the…
Nottingham Hoods continued their fabulous start to the 2021/22 NBL season with another win, this time against Thames Valley Cavaliers at the weekend, the Hoods now three from three in the regular season table and in addition the side have also won their first three L Lynch Cup games, six out of six for the…
It was not the best weekend for our women and men’s elite basketball sides as Nottingham Wildcats went down to championship chasing Leicester Riders in the WBBL whilst Nottingham Hoods lost both their games on Saturday and Sunday to stay rooted to the bottom of the table in the NBL First Division. The Wildcats were…
It was a tough weekend on the road for the cities two best basketball teams as the women of Nottingham Wildcats were beaten by BA London Lions and the Hoods representing the men were well and truly thrashed by Thames Valley Cavaliers. In the WBBL, London got the better of their opponents at the Barking…
Nottingham Wildcats were winners again this weekend as the team who often wear white and green, although they typically played in their changed yellow on Saturday, made it three on the bounce to go second in the WBBL standings. It was the Chelsey Shumpert show fpr the Wildcats as the American ran in 26 points…
It was a comprehensive home win for Nottingham Wildcats as they beat Cardiff Met Archers by 19 points in the first round of the WBBL Championships yesterday as Jasmine Joyner again lead the way in the point scoring as she usually does for her Nottingham team. The Wildcats winning every quarter against Welsh opposition, eventually…
t was agonising defeat for Nottingham Wildcats at the weekend as they were beaten by just two points in the semi-final of the WBBL Cup against Sevenoaks Suns. The Wildcats came agonisingly close to taking the match to over time but lost 69-67 against the current holders who will now play Leicester Riders in the…
Nottingham Hoods are through to the next round of the L Lynch Trophy after a comprehensive 91-70 victory over Charnwood Riders yesterday. Delaney Powell scored 18 of the Hoods points with Laurits Juffer netting 16 and Ward-Hibbert taking fifteen with five assists for Hundal as Juffer sat king of the rebounds with nine. It was…
It was double defeat yesterday for our cities elite basketball teams as both Nottingham Wildcats and Nottingham Hoods would be beaten in games aired live through YouTube streams shown on the Nottingham Sport website. After a winning start to the season a fortnight ago, the Wildcats were well beaten at Leicester Riders 61-48 in an…
Nottingham Hoods will return to action for their second match of the new season this weekend as Ben Stanley’s side take on Loughborough Riders after more than a fortnight in isolation for some of their players ahead of the game. Stanley himself said earlier this week in preparation “It’s a been a bit tough, we’ve…
It’s been a long time coming but basketball is back at last and Nottingham Wildcats finally got to play a much-needed game this weekend as they hosted London Lions and their Barking Abbey Academy in a pre-season match at the Wildcats Arena. The final score was Wildcats 43 Barking 83 but more important than the…
Ben Stanley has been announced as McDonald’s Nottingham Hoods Head Coach for the 2020/21 season after having a couple of seasons away from the game. Having took charge of the second team on two occasions (in 2015 & 2016) Stanley originally joined Nottingham as a player for the first team in 2013. With coaching experience…
