1981 WIBC season

April 2022 1981 WIBC season Women's National Basketball League Basketball 19 June 1981 – 9 ABC Regular season North Adelaide Rockets Julie Nykiel (Noarlunga Tigers) Finals St. Kilda Saints North Adelaide Rockets List of WNBL seasons WNBL None 1982 WNBL season 1982 The Women's Interstate Basketball Conference (WIBC) was the inaugural season of what would become the Australian Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). History On 4 October 1980, during the Australian Women’s Club Championship in Sydney, a meeting of delegates from six of the leading clubs in Australian women’s basketball was held. The clubs were North Adelaide Rockets, West Adelaide Bearcats and Glenelg from South Australia and CYMS (Catholic Young Men's Society), Melbourne Telstars and St. Kilda Saints from Victoria.History of the WNBL http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=64 Women's National Basketball League 23 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20111201065644/http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=64 1 December 2011 dead The meeting resolved to form a two-round competition between these teams to be held in July and August in 1981. The basis for the idea was that many of the top sides in both states wanted a varied competition from their standard state leagues as well as a suitable preparation for the Australian Club Championship, which was held on an annual basis for the top 24 teams in the country. With the formation of the men's National Basketball League in 1979, the women felt that one of the best ways to develop the game was to provide more opportunities for the best players and clubs to play against each other more regularly. A major consideration was finance and with this in mind the competition was formed with the six teams with a full home and away series between all teams with three games on one weekend to save costs. The New South Welsh teams of Bankstown Bruins and Sutherland Sharks were not happy due to costs and offered to pay their own way to Melbourne and Adelaide where they would play each team once for double points. In 1981, the Australian Institute of Sport was also opened and the men's head coach Dr. Adrian Hurley contacted the clubs and asked whether the AIS could also participate in the competition to commence later that year. The competition commenced on 19 June 1981 with the first game to be played in Adelaide between the AIS and West Adelaide Bearcats. The competition was named the Women’s Interstate Basketball Conference with each the teams paying the sum of $25 to be a part of the WIBC – giving a central fund of $200 to conduct the competition. Ladder The ladder at the end of the regular season.Media Guide 2011/12: Records & Statistics http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/2011_12/Team_Profiles/10041_BASKAUST_MEDIA_GUIDE_2011-12_WNBL_BACK.pdf Women's National Basketball League 142 PDF 23 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120318214857/http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/2011_12/Team_Profiles/10041_BASKAUST_MEDIA_GUIDE_2011-12_WNBL_BACK.pdf 2012-03-18 dead TeamPlayedWonLostForAgainstWon %%1North Adelaide Rockets1310383271377116.692St. Kilda Saints1311289275185118.773West Adelaide Bearcats13678038484694.694Melbourne Telstars138588078662111.965Bankstown Bruins106459957160104.96Catholic Young Men's Society13588078403896.077Noarlunga Tigers13498289573186.528Australian Institute of Sport10285816562088.579Sutherland Sharks10285236232083.95 Finals Semi-finals Grand Final 2 St Kilda Saints 80 3 West Adelaide Bearcats 53 1 North Adelaide Rockets 66 4 Melbourne Telstars 63 2 St Kilda Saints 77 1 North Adelaide Rockets 58 The inaugural winner was St. Kilda Saints defeating North Adelaide Rockets 77 points to 58. St. Kilda Saints also went on to win the Victorian State Championship and the Australian Club Championship in Melbourne defeating Bankstown Bruins in the final. St. Kilda Saints had three Australian representatives in Tracy Morris, Karen Ogden and Patricia Cockrem. References 1981 Category:1981 in Australian basketball Aus basketball