The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in Canberra. The 66-hectare (163-acre) site campus is in the northern suburb of Bruce. The AIS is a division of the Australian Sports Commission; a body controlled and funded by the Australian Government.
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is the pre-eminent professional women's basketball league in Australia. It is currently composed of eight teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League (NBL). Several WNBL teams have NBL counterparts. The Adelaide Lightning, Melbourne Boomers, Perth Lynx, Southside Flyers and Sydney Uni Flames are the current WNBL teams sharing a market with an NBL team. The current league champions are the Southside Flyers, who won their fourth title and their first under their current name.
West Adelaide Bearcats is a NBL1 Central club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club fields both a men's and women's team. The club is a division of the overarching West Adelaide Basketball Club (WABC), the major administrative basketball organisation in Adelaide's western suburbs. The Bearcats play their home games at Port Adelaide Recreation Centre.
The Ballarat Miners are an Australian basketball team based in Ballarat, Victoria. The Miners compete in the Men's NBL1 and play their home games at the Ballarat Sports and Events Centre. The team is affiliated with Ballarat Basketball Association, the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. For sponsorship reasons, they are known as the GMHBA Ballarat Miners. Their sister team, the Ballarat Rush, play in the Women's NBL1.
Albury Wodonga Bandits is a NBL1 club based in Albury, New South Wales. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1. The club is a division of the overarching Border Basketball Club, the major administrative basketball organisation in the Albury–Wodonga region. The Bandits play their home games at the Lauren Jackson Sports Centre. For sponsorship reasons, the two teams are known as the Southern Vale Homes Bandits.
Adelaide Arena is a multipurpose indoor sports stadium located in Findon, an inner western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
Geelong Supercats is a NBL1 club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1. The club is affiliated with Geelong United Basketball. The Supercats play their home games at Geelong Arena.
Adam Matthew Gibson is an Australian professional basketball player for the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the National Basketball League (NBL). He made his NBL debut in 2005, and has played for five NBL franchises. He is a two-time NBL champion, having won his first in 2007, with the Brisbane Bullets and his second in 2009, with the South Dragons. He is also a five-time All-NBL Team member and was crowned the NBL Best Defensive Player in 2009.
Rhys Jarred Carter is an Australian former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for Melbourne United of the National Basketball League (NBL). He had a near 20-year career, playing 282 NBL games, over 110 games in Sweden, over 200 SEABL/NBL1 games, and time in the British Basketball League, Big V and Premier League.
Tessa Rose Lavey is an Australian professional basketball player for the Bendigo Spirit of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) and an Australian rules football player with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW).
Madeleine Claire Garrick is an Australian professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). Maddie Garrick has been representing Australia in the FIBA WOMEN'S ASIA CUP (2017) and FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup(2018-2019).
Nunawading Spectres is a NBL1 club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1. The club is a division of Melbourne East Basketball Association (MEBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. The Spectres play their home games at Nunawading Basketball Centre.
Logan Thunder is a NBL1 North club based in Logan, Queensland. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 North. The club is a division of Logan Basketball Inc., the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. The Thunder play their home games at Cornubia Park Sports Centre.
Hobart Chargers is a NBL1 club based in Hobart, Tasmania. The club fields a team in both the Men's NBL1 and Women's NBL1. The Chargers play their home games at the Derwent Entertainment Centre.
Klara Wischer is an Australian professional basketball player for the Knox Raiders of the NBL1 South. She spent four years playing college basketball in the United States before returning to Australia and having a two-year stint with the Hobart Chargers. She then had a one-season stint in the WNBL with the Perth Lynx during the 2015–16 season. After two years with the SBL's Joondalup Wolves, Wischer returned to the Chargers for the 2018 season. In 2019, she joined the Kilsyth Cobras.
Jeremy Paul Kendle is an American professional basketball player for the Logan Thunder of the NBL1 North. He played three seasons of college basketball for Bellarmine University, becoming the only player in school history to be named to the NABC All-America Team two years in a row. He was also a key member of the Bellarmine Knights' 2011 championship-winning team, helping the school claim their first NCAA Division II National Championship.
Mount Gambier Pioneers is a member club of NBL1 based in Mount Gambier, South Australia. The club fields both a men's and women's team. The club is a division of Basketball Mount Gambier, the major administrative basketball organisation in the state's south-east region. The Pioneers play their home games at Bern Bruning Stadium.
The Melbourne Basketball Association (MBA) is an administrative basketball association in Melbourne, Australia. The association is responsible for two divisions: the Melbourne Tigers Junior Basketball Club and the Melbourne Tigers senior men's and women's representative teams.
Thomas Glen Joseph Wilson is an Australian former professional basketball player, turned Australian rules football player who plays for the Collingwood Football Club.
The Auckland Huskies are a semi-professional basketball team based in Auckland, New Zealand. The Huskies compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Eventfinda Stadium. Founded in Tasmania in 2019 as the Southern Huskies, the team relocated to Auckland in 2020.
