Club Baloncesto Estudiantes, S.A.D., known simply as Estu and as Movistar Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a

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team based in the city of

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, Spain. It is a member of the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (ACB). Founded in 1948, it is one of the most recognized basketball teams in Spain. Some of its achievements include winning three Spanish Cups and reaching the ACB Finals in 2004. The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth programme that has produced many Spanish talents over the years such as

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, Nacho Azofra, Aíto García Reneses,

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, Carlos Jiménez, Iñaki de Miguel, Pepu Hernández or Juancho Hernangómez.

Sponsorship naming

Along the years CB Estudiantes has had several sponsorship names:

History

The club was founded in 1948 by a group of students (the "Estudiantes") of a public preparatory school (the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, IRM) in

. By the time when the first Spanish-wide season-long championship was organized in 1955, by the Spanish Basketball Association (FEB), it was one of the six clubs participating in that tournament, as the second best team from the Province of Madrid (the first being

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. Since then, it has always participated in the premier Spanish basketball league. It is one of only three of such clubs, together with

and Joventut. It is also one of two only Spanish basketball clubs with teams both at the top male and female Spanish championships. In May 2012, Estudiantes was relegated for the first time in its history from the top tier of Spanish basketball, but remained in the league because

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champion CB 1939 Canarias didn't present the required documentation and money.

Home arenas

Polideportivo Antonio Magariños recortada

*La Nevera (The IRM Arena): (1948–71) *Polideportivo Antonio Magariños: (1971–87) *

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: (2001–2005) * Madrid Arena: (2005–2010) *

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: (1987–2001, 2010–present)

Rivalries

Estudiantes has a rivalry with

. Both teams meet in the Madrid basketball derby.

Players

Basketball Hall of Famers

* Antonio Díaz-Miguel, F, 1950–1952, 1953–1958, Inducted 1997

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

* José Miguel Antúnez * Víctor Arteaga * Nacho Azofra * Javier Beirán * Darío Brizuela * Jesús Codina * Quino Colom * Rodrigo de la Fuente * Iñaki de Miguel * Antonio Díaz-Miguel * Miguel Estrada * Jaime Fernández * Germán Gabriel * Aíto García Reneses * Fran Guerra * Juancho Hernangómez *

* Iker Iturbe * Carlos Jiménez * Oriol Junyent * Antonio Martín * Fernando Martín * Nacho Martín * Juan Antonio Martínez * Javier Mendiburu * Albert Oliver * Juan Antonio Orenga * Xavi Rabaseda * Vicente Ramos * Xavi Rey *

* Sergio Rodríguez * Gonzalo Sagi-Vela * José Sagi-Vela * Javi Salgado * Carlos Suárez * Rafael Vecina * Édgar Vicedo * Pancho Jasen * Nicolás Laprovíttola * Federico Van Lacke *

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* Nik Caner-Medley * Yannick Driesen * John Roberson * Lucas Nogueira * Caio Torres * Dejan Ivanov * Carl English * Levon Kendall * Philip Scrubb * Nacho Arroyo * Juan Palacios * Marko Banić * Danko Cvjetičanin * Željko Šakić *

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* Ondřej Balvín * Jiří Welsch * Kevin Larsen * Josh Asselin * Ángel Delgado * Luis Flores * Jamar Wilson * Tariq Kirksay * Edwin Jackson * Michel Morandais * Florent Piétrus * Ali Traoré * Tyrone Ellis * Viktor Sanikidze * Pietro Aradori * Alessandro Gentile * Mārtiņš Laksa * Shayne Whittington * Omar Cook * Nemanja Đurišić * Goran Nikolić * Nicolas de Jong * Torgeir Bryn * Rubén Garcés * J. J. Barea * Gian Clavell * Mikhail Mikhailov * Sitapha Savané * Aleksa Avramović *

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* Nemanja Dangubić * Nikola Lončar * Petar Popović * Vladimir Štimac * Domen Lorbek * Uroš Slokar * Samo Udrih * Martin Rančík * Ludvig Håkanson * Daniel Clark * Vitaly Potapenko * Jayson Granger * Gary Alexander *

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* Alec Brown * Louis Bullock * Vonteego Cummings * Toney Douglas * Marlon Garnett * Keith Jennings * Kyle Kuric *

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* Will McDonald * Tony Mitchell * Andrae Patterson * John Pinone * Phil Pressey * David Russell * Walker Russell * Cedric Simmons * Terry Stotts * Ron Taylor * Shaun Vandiver * Glen Whisby * Eric White * Harper Williams * Rickie Winslow * Antoine Wright

Head coach

* Rafael Laborde: 1948–1949, 1953-1955, 1956 * Miguel Parrilla: 1949-1951 * Leopoldo Bermúdez: 1951-1953 * Víctor Díaz: 1955-1956 * Héctor Rodríguez: 1956 (int.) * José Antonio Garrido: 1956-1957 * Roberto Bermúdez: 1957, 1959-1960, 1974-1975 * Emilio Tejada: 1957-1958 * Ramón Uturbi: 1958-1959 * Jaime Bolea: 1960-1963 * Jesús Codina: 1963-1964, 1973-1974, 1979-1981 * Francisco Hernández: 1964-1965 * Ignacio Pinedo: 1965-1973 * Fernando Bermúdez: 1975-1976 * José Ramón Ramos: 1976-1979 * Fernando Martínez Arroyo: 1979 * Antonio Gómez Carra: 1981-1983 * Paco Garrido: 1983-1988 * Miguel Ángel Martín: 1988-1994 * Pepu Hernández: 1994-2001, 2001-2005, 2011-2012 * Charly Sáinz de Aja: 2001 * Juan Antonio Orenga: 2005-2006 *

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: 2006-2007 * Mariano de Pablos: 2007 * Javier Carlos González: 2007 (int.) * Velimir Perasović: 2007-2008 * Luis Casimiro: 2008-2011 * Trifón Poch: 2012 * Txus Vidorreta: 2012-2015 * Diego Ocampo: 2015-2016 * Alberto Lorenzo: 2016 (int.) * Sergio Valdeolmillos: 2016 * Salva Maldonado: 2016-2018 * Josep Maria Berrocal: 2018-2019 * Aleksandar Džikić: 2019-2020 * Javier Zamora: 2020-2021 * Jota Cuspinera: 2021-2022 * Diego Epifanio: 2022 * Javi Rodríguez: 2022-present

Presidents

*Antonio Magariños: 1948-1964 *Anselmo López: 1964 (int.) *José Hermida: 1964-1971 *Pedro Dellmans: 1971-1983 *Juan Francisco Moneo: 1983-1999 *Alejandro González Varona: 1999-2004 *Juan Francisco García: 2004-2005 *Fernando Bermúdez: 2005-2008 *Javier Tejedor: 2008 *Juan Francisco García: 2008-2014 *Fernando Galindo: 2014-2022 *Ignacio Triana: 2022-present

Season by season

Honours

Domestic competitions

Liga ACB The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, w ...

: ''Runners-up (4)'': 1962–63, 1967–68, 1980–81, 2003–04 *

Copa del Rey de Baloncesto The Copa del Rey de Baloncesto (English: '' King's Cup of Basketball'') is an annual cup competition for Spanish basketball teams organized by Spain's top professional league, the Liga ACB. History Originally known as the ''Copa de España de B ...

(Spanish King's Cup) : Winners (3): 1963,

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen fro ...

: ''Runners-up (4)'': 1962, 1973, 1975,

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Ph ...

* Copa Princesa de Asturias (Spanish Princess' Cup) : Winners (2): 1986, 2022

European competitions

* EuroLeague : ''4th place (1)'': 1991–92 : Final Four (1):

FIBA Saporta Cup The FIBA Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, where the domestic National Cup winners, from all over Europe, played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA E ...

(defunct) : ''Semifinalists (2)'': 1973–74, 1975–76 *

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(defunct) : ''Runners-up (1)'': 1998–99 * EuroCup Basketball : ''Semifinalists (2)'': 2002–03, 2003–04 *

FIBA EuroChallenge FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...

(defunct) : ''4th place (1)'': 2006–07 : Final Four (1):

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhut ...

Other competitions

* FIBA International Christmas Tournament (defunct) : Winners (1):

: ''4th place (4)'':

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

, 1974,

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

* Torneo Comunidad de Madrid (defunct) : Winnners (8): 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 * Albacete, Spain Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2014 * Torneo Ciudad de Getafe : Winners (1): 2019

Individual awards

Spanish Cup MVP * Juan Antonio Orenga – 1991 * John Pinone – 1992 *

– 2000 ACB Rising Star * Sergio Rodríguez – 2005 * Carlos Suárez – 2006 * Juan Hernangómez – 2016 ACB Slam Dunk Champion *David Russell – 1986, 1987 * Ricky Winslow – 1990 *Chandler Thompson – 1996, 1998 ACB Three Point Shootout Champion * Danko Cvjetičanin – 1993 * Keith Jennings – 1996 All-ACB First Team * Carlos Jiménez – 2006 * Carlos Suárez – 2010 * Nik Caner-Medley – 2011 * Edwin Jackson – 2017 *

– 2018

Women's team

CB Estudiantes has also a women's team which was founded in 1989 and played during several seasons in Liga Femenina, the Spanish women's basketball top tier. It currently plays in Liga Femenina.

Season by season

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Estudiantes Basketball teams established in 1948 Liga ACB teams Basketball teams in the Community of Madrid Women's basketball teams in Spain Sports teams in Madrid