Price: let’s amalgamate SuperLeague conferences

BORD GAIS Neptune coach Pat Price feels it’s time for Basketball Ireland to reexamine the two-conference system which has been operating in the Nivea for Men’s SuperLeague.

Speaking at the launch of the new season at the NBA in Tymon Park, he recalled that when he came to Ireland back in 1998 to coach UCC Demons, there were 14 teams in the SuperLeague and one single conference.

This year the SuperLeague has been reduced to nine teams following the departure of Notre Dame/Hoops – once the powerhouse of Irish basketball. They were the most recent casualties following Ballina, St Paul’s Killarney, Tralee Tigers and Tolka Rovers.