Konyaspor Basket was a Turkish professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
team from the city of
Konya
Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it ...
.
History
The club was founded by
Selçuk University
Selçuk University ( tr, Selçuk Üniversitesi) is a state-owned higher educational institution which was founded 1975 in Konya, Turkey. It is one of the largest universities in Turkey with a student body of 63,000 of which 2,200 are foreign stu ...
in 1987.
In August 2014 the club changed its name to Konyaspor Basketbol in order to gain more support from the citizens of Konya and fangroups from Konyaspor. The club has no ties to the
football club of Konya but only changed its for better sponsorship and fangroups reasons.
History
* Mutlu Aku Selcuk Universitesi (–2012)
* Torku Selcuk Universitesi (2012–2014)
* Torku Konyaspor (2014–2015)
* Konyaspor Basketbol Kulubu (2015–2016)
Season by season
Players
Notable players
*
Yunus Çankaya
* -
Ekene Ibekwe
*
Kevin Braswell
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*
Sean Williams
*
Troy DeVries
*
Warren Carter
*
Hakim Warrick
Hakim Hanif Warrick (born July 8, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange from 2001 to 2005. Warrick won an NCAA championship in 2003 and blocked a potential game-tying thre ...
*
Tomas Delininkaitis
References
External links
Official WebsiteEurobasket.com pageUnofficial blogClub HistoryTBLStat.net Team Profile
Basketball teams in Turkey
Basketball teams established in 1987
1987 establishments in Turkey
Sport in Konya
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