Kauhajoki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region, 59 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of the city of Seinäjoki. The population of Kauhajoki is 12,618 and the municipality covers an area of 1,298.98 km2 (501.54 sq mi) of which 16.46 km2 (6.36 sq mi) is inland water. The population density is 9.71/km2 (25.1/sq mi). The town is unilingually Finnish.
The Finland men's national basketball team represents Finland in international basketball competition. The national team is governed by Basketball Finland.
Helsinki Seagulls is a professional basketball team, based in Helsinki, Finland. The club plays in the Korisliiga, the highest tier of basketball in Finland.
The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 regular season games. The top six teams advances continues to upper stage and the bottom six teams plays lower stage after 22 games, 5 games at home and 5 games at away versus all other teams in stage. The best two teams from lower group joins to playoffs with upper group teams. Playoffs are played best of seven format, except the quarter-finals which are played best of 5 format. Pantterit holds the record for the most league titles won, with 14. The top level Finnish league for women is the Naisten Korisliiga.
BC Kalev, also known as BC Kalev/Cramo for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Tallinn, Estonia. The team plays in the Korvpalli Meistriliiga (KML), the Estonian-Latvian Basketball League and the FIBA Europe Cup. Their home arena is the Kalev Sports Hall.
Kataja Basket Club is a professional basketball club of sports club Kataja from Joensuu, Finland. The team plays in the Korisliiga, the highest tier of Finnish basketball. In 2015, Kataja won its first national championship, after it beat Bisons Loimaa 3–2 in the Finnish Finals.
Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat Basket, shortly KTP Basket, is the largely independent basketball team of Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat, a Finnish sports club based in Kotka, and has played in the Korisliiga since 1957. The club has won the Finnish championship six times.
Topias Palmi is a Finnish professional basketball player who plays for Karhu Basket of the Finnish Korisliiga and the FIBA Europe Cup. A 194 cm tall guard, Palmi last played for Vanoli Cremona of the LBA.
Cameron Scott Jones is an American professional basketball player for Karhu Basket of the Korisliiga. He played college basketball for Northern Arizona University.
Limburg United, for sponsorship reasons named Hubo Limburg United, is a professional basketball club based in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.
The Korisliiga Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual award that is handed out to the best player in the Finals of a given Finnish Korisliiga season. The award usually goes to a player that is on the championship team.
Salon Vilpas is a professional basketball club based in Salo, Finland. The team currently plays in the top level Korisliiga. The Vikings are a part of the Salon Vilpas multi-sport club.
The 2016–17 Korisliiga season is the 77th season of the top professional basketball league in Finland. The season started on October 5, 2016, and ended on May 13, 2017. Kataja Basket won its second national title after beating Salon Vilpas in the Finals.
The 2017–18 Korisliiga season was the 78th season of the top professional basketball league in Finland. The season started on 28 September 2017 and ended on 18 May 2018. Kataja Basket were the defending champions, but Kauhajoki Karhu achieved their first title ever.
Tuomas Iisalo is a Finnish basketball coach and former player. He is currently serving as the assistant coach of the Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA.
The 2018–19 Korisliiga season was the 79th season of the top professional basketball league in Finland. Karhu successfully defended their title to repeat as Finnish national champions.
Severi Tino Kalevi Kaukiainen is a Finnish professional basketball player who plays as a point guard for Estonian club Kalev/Cramo in the Korvpalli Meistriliiga and Latvian–Estonian Basketball League.
Thomas Tumba Exaucia is a Finnish basketball player who plays for Morón in LEB Oro. Previously he was known as Thomas Exaucia, but since 2022, he started to use his mother's surname Tumba officially.
Henri Mikael Kantonen is a Finnish professional basketball player who recently played as a shooting guard for Lithuanian club M Basket Mažeikiai in the Betsafe LKL, and the Finland national team. Kantonen started playing basketball in a youth team of Torpan Pojat.
Andre Gustavson, is a Finnish professional basketball player for the Karhu Basket of the Finnish Korisliiga.
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