Last year they proudly lifted the BBL cup, finishing the BBL season second. In their career, they have the most impressive records, being the BBL Championship winners 7 times BBL Championship Play Off Winners 6 times BBL Trophy Winners 6 times and BBL Cup Winners 5 times.
The beginning of their career didn’t find the Eagles too victorious, but after the year of 2000 the team had slowly risen to great success. Second on the BBL table with 8 points, Newcastle Eagles are the most successful team in the league’s history. The game against Leeds Force ended with 103 points for the Riders, and last game on 16 October shows the victory for the team with 100 points against Cheshire Phoenix. 88 points made the Riders victorious against Surrey Scorchers both at home and away. First game they played this season was against Worcester Wolves, and they won with 77 to 66 points on 25 September. As the current standings show, the Riders have won every single game in the fixtures, being positioned on top of the table, and leading with 12 points. In the current season, 2016/17, Leicester Riders have an impressive performance.
Having gone through both hard times and successes along the years, the Riders were the winners of the playoffs in the 2000/01 BBL season, 2012/13 and winner of the trophy in 2015/2016 BBL season. The Riders were founder member of the National Basketball League in 1972 and the British Basketball League in 1987. Leicester Riders is Britain’s oldest basketball team, being established in 1967 by the students and lecturers at Loughborough University.
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