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Ballarat Miners is a NBL1 South club based in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Ballarat Basketball Association, the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. The Miners play their home games at Ballarat Sports Events Centre.
The champion teams of the NBL1 South are determined annually by a grand final championship day hosted by Basketball Victoria. The grand final host venue was the State Basketball Centre in Melbourne in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
The women's grand final saw the Waverley Falcons defeat the Keilor Thunder 87–82 [9] while the men's grand final saw the Eltham Wildcats defeat the Ballarat Miners 79–70. [10] [11] [12] Carley Ernst of the Waverley Falcons was named women's grand final MVP [13] [14] while Angus Glover of the Eltham Wildcats was named men's grand final MVP ...
The Ballarat Minerdome (also known as MARS Minerdome under a naming rights agreement with Mars Chocolate Australia [1]) is a sports stadium located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It hosts the South East Australian Basketball League teams Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush , and can hold up to 2,000 spectators.
The facility was established in 1986 as a two-court indoor community netball stadium known as the Wendouree Netball Centre. During the early 2000s the popularity of Basketball, Netball and Badminton in the Ballarat region had significantly outgrown the capacity of existing stadia built during the 1970s at the nearby Hollioake Park sports complex.
Basketball Victoria introduced a new senior elite league in 2019 called NBL1 after partnering with the National Basketball League (NBL). [2] [3] [4]The former teams from the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) were part of the inaugural NBL1 season, while Eltham Wildcats, Knox Raiders, Ringwood Hawks and Waverley Falcons joined from the Big V. [2]
After a successful first season in 2019, the National Basketball League (NBL) expanded the NBL1 in 2020 by introducing Basketball Victoria's inaugural 2019 league and teams as the new South Conference and partnering with Basketball Queensland and Basketball South Australia to make the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) and South Australian Premier League the new North and Central conferences.
After attempting to join the ranks of the NBA Development League in November 2015, [19] [20] Ross signed with the Ballarat Miners of the South East Australian Basketball League on December 15, 2015. [8] In the Miners' season opener on April 1, 2016, Ross scored 14 points with three 3-pointers in a 93–68 loss to the Bendigo Braves.