Scotland men's national basketball team


The Scotland national basketball team represents Scotland in international basketball competition. It is organised by basketballscotland, the sport's governing body in Scotland, which merged with England and Wales to form the Great Britain national team. The Scotland national team used to compete in FIBA Europe's Division C. Scotland's direct affiliation to FIBA ended on 30 September 2016. To date, Scotland's main accomplishments were two qualifications to the EuroBasket, Europe's main basketball event. Further, the team won five bronze medals at the FIBA European Championship for Small Countries.

History

EuroBasket 1951

The Scottish team's first European championship competition was at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. They lost their eight games and finished 16th place out of 18. They outranked Luxembourg, who had had the misfortune of being in a five-team preliminary group instead of a four-team group, and Romania, who had dropped out of the tournament at the last minute.

EuroBasket 1957

Six years later, at the EuroBasket 1957 in Sofia, Scotland competed much better. There, the squad won one of its three preliminary round games to be relegated to the classification round. The first match in that round pitted Scotland against Albania, who had also not yet achieved a victory in EuroBasket competition. The Scots proved the better, 69–56. Afterwards, they lost their next six matches but showed considerable improvement from the last tournament. They competed against Austria and West Germany the whole game until they finally ceded by one point and five points respectively to finish the classification round 1–6 in 15th place overall, ahead of Albania which they beat twice.

Competitions

Performance at EuroBasket

YearPositionNoteTournamentHost
195116EuroBasket 1951Paris, France
195715EuroBasket 1957Sofia, Bulgaria

Performance at the Commonwealth Games

Melbourne 2006

Games PlayedWonLostPoints ScoredPoints ConcededPoint DifferenceFinal Place
523366429−636th

Last roster

The following is the Scotland roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Past rosters

At the FIBA EuroBasket 2010 Division C:
#PlayerPositionHeightCurrent club
4Garreth LodgePoint Guard1.85Edinburgh Kings
5Patrick CampbellShooting Guard1.93Edinburgh Kings
6Grant GibsonPoint Guard1.82E.Lothian B.
7Laurie CostelloPoint Guard1.87Edinburgh Kings
8Josh CrolleySmall Forward1.98Troon Tornadoes
9Daniel DonnellySmall Forward1.98Troon Tornadoes
10Michael LynnForwardSt. Mirren
11Ross CampbellForward1.98Troon Tornadoes
12Steven LevenForward1.97Arkadikos
13Thomas PearsonCenter2.00Manchester Magic
14Ikemefuna AttahPower Forward1.98Tees Valley Mohawks
15Simon FlockhartCenter2.10Edinburgh Kings