Next up is the UBC, I wanted to make this feel a little collegiate, but I've kind of decided that I didn't want school endorsed sports like in the U.S. So, these players get paid and they have to be going to that college, but they're basically semi-pro's. I touched on it before, but these are the four teams who did the best in League 2 this season and they will be competing in a play in for the 8th spot in the UBC playoffs.
Background
The uniforms are not all the complicated for these, but I'll explain the names. Trent Titans was just one the club thought sounded good and reflected the industrial might of the city. Their logo is the famous "winged-T," designed with the basketball team in mind upon its inception in 1953. In 1965, it was updated to its current version. Dudley is a city that's kind of known for being rowdy. Trent, Portsmouth, and New Dublin are good examples out west. As well as Salisbury, Hamstead, and Wells in the east. So, its perception in the Traders Bay itself, not the province, was that it was the "black cat of the bay," due to its ostentatious reputation and thus extroversion. Dudley is still commonly referred as this in bay communities in Sherborne and Derby. So, the club ran with it. Three Rivers in located in Dover where the vast Laukea River (wide) flows, bastardized by the British as the Cowtake River. It also flows through Bangor where it meets the Manakakwa River, the largest on the greater island of Manakakwa. In Dover, the Cowtake is created by the Lovell/Manuanu River (cold) and Rocking/Maupa River (mountain). Three Rivers name, the Aeros, comes from it being the STEM focused university in the Riverlands, but also its position as the foremost aero-engineering school. This is probably my least favorite of the logos, I thought of having a planet in the middle and then it has the three big stripes for the rivers. It might be a little modern for the time period, I tried to work an

After the 1972 Regular Season, the inaugural Silverian Basketball Championships are to take place in the month Janurary. Keep in mind Silveria is in the Southern Hemisphere, so it'll be the middle of the summer. This will be the first time in which these championships are marketed as a single event. The Silverian Basketball Championships will lead up to the Silverian Open, which will take place before next season, in July. In the case of the UBC (College Club), SAAL (Academy), and NSL (High School Club), the Silverian Basketball Championships will determine which of their team(s) will be eligible for the Silverian Open. All SBA teams and the EBA/WBA (Second Division) playoff teams are automatically eligible. In the month of January, basketball will be played on 27 of 31 days in Silveria. The SBA Playoffs start January 8th. But, all other leagues will start on the 1st. In connection to the new events, a new publication, Day One Sports, has taken over the primary storytelling role from the SBA magazine. The owner of Day One Sports, Gil Davies, previously played for the Trent Engineers and Stratford Flames of the WBA.

The first games of the day take us to Silveria's capitol, Stratford. Rivers End Division champ, Edgar Hamstead, is set to play Traders Bay Division champ, Coburn Salisbury, at 10am, in the first NSL Silverian Six matchup in history. The Silverian Six format is that of a round robin in which each team will play all 5 opponents and the two teams with the best record in said games will play in the Silverian Six final.

Edgar Engineers vs. Coburn Bulls (10:00am)
The Stratford National Coliseum was rather empty to get the events going, with just 1,500 fans in attendance, a 21% coverage of the arena. In fact, Edgar v. Coburn was the least attended game of the 3 NSL games. Aside from the NSL, all other teams will be playing on home courts, so you'd have to think that attendance number will hopefully be

USC Background

The WRC (Western Rugby Coalition) was a collegiate club rugby division founded in 1904, a year before high school level sports were introduced to the relatively new nation of Silveria. It's original members were Winters University, Stratford's Protestant school, Ferdinand University, Silver Point's Catholic school, Silver Peninsula Mining University, located in O'Connor, and Westbury University, the only of the four that was public. In 1905 the name of the league was officially changed to the WSC (Western Sporting Coalition), with its introduction of soccer. Abbot University, another Catholic school this time based out of St. Patrick, joined in 1908. In 1911, the ESC (Eastern Sporting Coalition) was formed between Three Rivers University, a public college in Dover, Riverlands, Dudley University, also public, but in Traders Bay, and Oil Tech University, a private college in Wells. John Paul University, Stratford's catholic college joined the WSC in 1916. Ridgeview University joined the WSC in 1918, as Silver Point's Protestant College. In 1920, the first URC (United Rugby Coalition) was held between WRC champion Abbot and ERC champion Dudley. This would be the first step in creating the USC we know and love today. In 1923 the WSC saw its second public school join that being Silver Point University. Along with their entry came the split of the WSC into North and South Divisions. Abbot, Westbury, Winters, and John Paul in the North, and SP Mining, Ferdinand, Ridgeview, and Silver Point in the South. In 1925, Stratford University joined the WSC, this is when the first private/public split happened with the WSC now being split in three division, North, South, and Public. The North no longer featured Westbury, and the South no longer featured Silver Point, with both joining Stratford in the WSC Public Division. However, during the Great Depression funding especially for uniforms and travel dried up and the WSC had to suspend operations from the end of the

SBA Regular Season Second Half: East Division

Bangor Farmers 16-10 (35-17)
Owner: Colin Burns
Coach: Bryan Harris
Starters: 1 Santos Garza, 2 Dom Byrd, 3 Eugene Shaw, 4 C Cristo Ventura, 5 Adam Lowe
Bench: 6 SG Toby Dunn, 7 PF John Hall, 8 SF Malcolm Nichols, 9 C Vytautas Paulauskas, 10 PG Willie Angus
***Injuries: N/A

I haven't mentioned this, but the injury column only shows injuries 3 games or more, so if you were wondering why there aren't a ton of injuries. But, shockingly one of the SBA's oldest teams got through the second half of the season without any significant injuries. The story of the season for Bangor was of course the retirement tour of SBA legend Adam Lowe. Although Eugene Shaw has continued to tip toe around the question of his retirement, he and Lowe were honored together throughout the season especially at home. Aside from their aging stars, their new core trio of talent continued to guide the Farmers. This time around finishing with a 16-10 record after the All Star break, not quite as dominant as their first half, but still the best record of any team in the second half and in total. The Farmers will face the Hounds for the first time in the playoffs, an interesting matchup especially offensively, this could be a rivalry reborn if both continue to contend for the SBA Championship. 

Haydon Hounds 15-11 (29-23)
Owner: Carson Singleton
Coach: Len Hess
Starters: 1 SG Brent McCormick, 2 Rufus Simon, 3 Stefane Lachance, 4 Allen Davies, 5 Kenneth Tate
[color=#000000]Bench: 6 PG Noah Foster, 7 SF Beau Whittle, 8 C Eddie Duarte, 9 PG Davey O’Gallagher, 10 PF Pep Cassano
***Injuries: Davey O'Gallagher (games 43-51)

The Hounds came firing out of the gate in the second half. And, the traditional 2nd place team in the East, the Rowdies, had to pay for it. A mediocre second half for Rivers End

1972 SBA All Star Game

East wins 106-97
MVP: Santos Garza

West Starters:
PG Chuck McLaughlin (Chiefs) 1 start, 3 apps
SG Sal Banks (Engineers) 1,3
SF Bob Bass (Stars) 1,4
PF Grant McCoy (Stars) 3,5
C Randal Franklin (Stars) 5,5
West Bench:
PG Bobby Ellis (Happies) 2,4
SG Grant Goodwin (Chiefs) 1,2
SF Geoff Owens (Engineers) 0,5
PF Cary Joseph (Happies) 0,5
C Shane Conway (Captains) 0,2

East Starters:
PG Santos Garza (Farmers) 3,4
SG Dom Byrd (Farmers) 5,5
SF Clarence Ward (Whalers) 5,5
PF Ira Diaz (Rowdies) 5,5
C Pete Murphy (Rowdies) 5,5
East Bench:
PG Jordy Jensen (Whalers) 0,3
SG Brent McCormick (Hounds) 3,5
SF Eugene Shaw (Farmers) 3,5
PF Cristo Ventura (Farmers) 0,1
C Kenneth Tate (Hounds) 2,5

Biggest Snubs:
1. C Rick Howell (Phoenix)
2. SG Rufus Simon (Hounds)
3. SG Brian Morris (Chiefs)
4. PF/SF Dario Hurst (Rowdies)
5. C Sidney Wade (Chiefs)

Other News
-Eugene Shaw became the oldest player to play in the SBA All Star Game (35)
-Wells Phoenix didn't have a single player in the SBA All Star Game
-St. Patrick Happies announce plans to rebrand this offseason including the introduction of a primary logo other than their classic script, the first time in team history