THE BMBA INVITATIONAL

The BMBA invitational will be an exciting new junior basketball competition format that has an entire focus on player and team development. Six team groups will be formed and initially, competitions will be played across a school term. The intention is to grow this across a two-term season as more teams enter.

To begin with, our one-term format will include six teams playing each other in a round-robin format where every team plays each other at least once. While these games will have a scoreboard and a team that wins and a team that loses, no ladders will be kept. The entire purpose of these lead-up round-robin games is the development of players. We want coaches to be focused on development and not winning.

In this format having your players try something new in game conditions whether it be a new dribble, a shot attempt or running a play will not impact on your team whether you win or lose.

Instead, coaches will be encouraged to use these games to develop and educate their players for an end of term round robin tournament, where over two weekends the same teams will play in competitive games where ladders will be kept and the top two teams will play off in a grand final to crown that term/season champions.

Ultimately, our preference is for a two-term season, where teams will play each other across fifteen rounds and then participate in an end-of-season round-robin tournament.

This will allow coaches and teams to focus on:

♦ Player Development

♦ Team development

♦ Trialling different skills, offensive and defensive concepts.

♦ All of this will be done with experienced and knowledgeable coaches in charge of each team.

♦ Games will be conducted with proper timing regulations, by-laws and shot clocks.

♦ Games will have referees who will be provided with the environment to ensure every game

enjoys the highest standard of officiating possible.

♦ Why not join us in this wonderful concept to develop your players and teams?

Go to our contacts page and send us an email to express your interest. Lets get the ball rolling.

CHECK OUT WHAT WE ARE OFFERING FOR YOUR TEAM

The BMBA invitational will be an exciting new basketball concept of competition not seen before in Melbourne Basketball Circles.

Check out what we will be offering

♦ Longer game times

♦ Shot Clocks.

♦ Match Videos and full stats.

♦ Development emphasis in lead-up games to the end-of-season tournament.

♦ A round-robin tournament at the completion of the season to decide the season’s champions.

♦ Competition development, by-laws and standards to be driven by independent

knowledgeable coaches.

♦ A profit-sharing rotation for every club/program invited into the program to host games.

♦ An end-of-season prize for the champion team and their club.

BMBA Invitational

Central Districts Representative

This competition will be conducted on Friday nights starting at 6:00 pm. It is designed to
provide an alternative for rep teams that cannot play in the Victorian Junior League
competitions or would simply prefer an option that doesn’t require the same travel. It will
involve the following age groups for both boy’s and girl’s competitions.

♦ Under 12
♦ Under 14
♦ Under 16
♦ Under 18 (where numbers permit)
These competitions will be conducted with the same features and format as our Elite
Division competitions to be conducted on Saturdays.

BMBA Invitational

Elite Division

This competition is in effect the same as the “Central Districts Representative” competition, except it will be played on Saturday afternoons commencing at 4:00 pm and will
provide for the most eager of players and teams the opportunity to play with their mates
in one domestic competition and then another game with more features and a format
which will deliver a higher standard through the BMBA invitational at Stonnington Sports
Centre

BMBA Invitational

Domestic Division

We are also determined to provide games and competitions that will also embed many of
the features offered in the above two competitions. This competition will be made available to teams not confident enough or not ready to enter the above competitions.

They will still provide longer game times, shot clocks and a development focus with
unique competition formats.

For more details and information about the BMBA invitational, click the poster image on the right or the button below to access our information booklet.

HOW TO JOIN THE BMBA INVITATIONAL

There are two ways to join our BMBA Invitational competitions. First, individuals can come along to our BMBA tryouts and join a BMBA teams to be entered into our competitions. Refer below for more details.

The second way to join one of our competitions is for clubs, schools and academies to enter their own teams, You can do that via the registration buttons at the foot of this page.

BMBA TRYOUTS AND TEAMS

The BMBA are conducting tryout sessions every week for individuals to come along to our BMBA tryouts and to join BMBA teams to be entered into our BMBA Invitational competitions.

These tryout sessions will be ongoing until teams competitions are established. Unlike other tryouts spaces will be found for each junior in a domestic squad, a representative squad or if a beginner a training/development program.

For details and to register for a BMBA team via our tryouts CLICK HERE or the tryout flyer on the left.

Tryouts are open for boys and girls in the age groups advertised. There is a $10.00 fee for each tryout session until a player joins a squad or is placed in a training/development program.

ENTER YOUR OWN TEAMS

Of course, basketball clubs, basketball academies and schools can enter their own teams. In fact, we are encouraging teams by offering clubs, academies and schools to earn the title of “Original” status where is they are one of the first four basketball programs to enter into our competitions across all age groups for both boys and girls, they will be tagged an “Original” club/program and be provided with financial discounts towards their team registration fees and weekly scoresheet fees.

Use the green buttons below to register your teams and their players.