2016 UBA Pro Basketball League season
# 2016 UBA Pro Basketball League season

The UBA Pro Basketball League season was the 2nd season of the UBA Pro Basketball League. The Phase-1 of the season began on 28 February 2016 at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune.

UBA has partnered with Emmy Award winning broadcaster Paul Crane who has covered sports at the highest levels in the United States for over three decades, to present the Pro Basketball League 2016. Steve Graham, executive producer of the League, has been involved with six past Olympic Games, international triathlons, auto racing and international volleyball games in his career.

Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty and BJP MP and President of the Maharashtra State Basketball Association Poonam Mahajan were the chief guests of the opening ceremony that held on 18 February 2016 at the Pune’s Balewadi Stadium. Basketball Federation of India is extended its support to this event, and former international player, Norman Isaac of BFI.

Delhi Capitals were crowned champions of Season 2 after beating defending champions Chennai Slam by 2-1 in the best-of-three final series. Vinay Kaushik was named MVP.

## Format

The UBA schedule has each of its teams playing an equal number of regular season games with their won-loss records used to qualify for the league’s post-season. Each team will play each of its division opponents four times along with one cross division opponent, which will rotate each season. Each division will stage a one game play-in between its second and third place teams with the winner to face the first place team in a best-of-three semi final followed by a best-of-three final between the division winners to determine the UBA Champion.

## Teams

There are currently 8 franchise teams competing in the tournament divided into two divisions:

## Brackets

| Play-offs | Play-offs | Play-offs | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Championship | Championship | Championship |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | N1 | Delhi Capitals | 2 | | | |
| North Division | North Division | North Division | N1 | Delhi Capitals | 2 | | | |
| North Division | North Division | North Division | N2 | Mumbai Challengers | 1 | | | |
| N2 | Mumbai Challengers | 1 | N2 | Mumbai Challengers | 1 | | | |
| N3 | Punjab Steelers | 0 | | | | | | |
| N3 | Punjab Steelers | 0 | | | | N1 | Delhi Capitals | 2 |
| | | | | | | S1 | Chennai Slam | 1 |
| | | | S1 | Chennai Slam | 2 | | | |
| South Division | South Division | South Division | S1 | Chennai Slam | 2 | | | |
| South Division | South Division | South Division | S2 | Pune Peshwas | 1 | | | |
| S2 | Pune Peshwas | 1 | S2 | Pune Peshwas | 1 | | | |
| S3 | Bengaluru Beast | 0 | | | | | | |

Note:

1: Play-offs will be One-game playoff. 2: Semi-finals and Finals will be best of three games.

### Play-offs

Mumbai Challengers and Pune Peshwas through to semi-finals.

* 27 March 2016 16:30 IST
* Report

| Mumbai Challengers | 78–76 | Punjab Steelers |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 18-17, 21-17, 9-21, 30-21 |||
| Pts: Gagandeep Singh 23 Rebs: Gagandeep Singh 12 Asts: Jagdeep Singh Bains 4 | | Pts: Gurvinder Gill 21 Rebs: Gurvinder Gill 16 Asts: Akilan Pari 5 |

* Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
* 27 March 2016 19:00 IST
* Report

| Pune Peshwas | 79–73 | Bengaluru Beast |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 12-15, 21-23, 16-17, 30-18 |||
| Pts: Narender Grewal 23 Rebs: Narender Grewal 11 Asts: Siddhanth Shinde 5 | | Pts: Kaif Zia 27 Rebs: Manpreet 10 |

* Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad

### Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | 3rd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delhi Capitals | 2–1 | Mumbai Challengers | 69–75 | 72–61 | 78–69 |
| Chennai Slam | 2–1 | Pune Peshwas | 88–72 | 71–73 | 97–79 |

### Championship

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | 3rd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chennai Slam | 1–2 | Delhi Capitals | 77–62 | 67–77 | 65–92 |

* 1 April 2016 19:00 IST
* Report

| Chennai Slam | 77–62 | Delhi Capitals |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 15-16, 25-9, 15-18, 22-19 |||
| Pts: Gopal Ram 22 | | Pts: Ramesh 15 |

* Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
* 2 April 2016 19:00 IST
* Report

| Delhi Capitals | 77–67 | Chennai Slam |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 20-10, 21-18, 12-22, 24-17 |||
| Pts: Ramesh 17 | | Pts: Arjun GK 21 |

* Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
* 3 April 2016 19:00 IST
* Report

| Delhi Capitals | 92–65 | Chennai Slam |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 21-18, 24-13, 20-14, 27-20 |||
| Pts: Ajay Pratap Singh 21 | | Pts: Cammy Carmel 22 |

* Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
