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The 2015–16 Irish Premier League season was the 43rd running of Basketball Ireland's premier men's basketball competition. The season featured 10 teams from across the
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, with the regular season beginning on 3 October 2015 and ending on 6 March 2016. With a first-place finish and a 16–2 win–loss record,
UCC Demons UCC Demons are an Irish basketball team based in Cork. The team competes in the Super League and plays its home games at Mardyke Arena. The team is a division of Blue Demons Basketball Club and is directly associated with the University Colleg ...
were crowned back-to-back league champions, while 2016 National Cup honours went to
Templeogue Templeogue is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south. Geography Location Templeogue is from Dublin city centre t ...
, who collected their first piece of silverware. In the season finale Champions Trophy tournament, Demons took out the title for the fourth straight year.


Teams


Regular season


Standings

Source
Basketball Ireland


Champions Trophy


Bracket

''*National League Division 1 champions.'' ''**National League Division 1 runners-up.''


Quarter-finals

Source
Basketball Ireland


Semi-finals

Source
Basketball IrelandBasketball Ireland


Final


National Cup


Round 1 (2 legs)


Round 2 (1 leg)

Winner of Series 2 vs Winner of Series 4


Semi-finals

Winner of Series 1 vs Winner of Round 2 Winner of Series 5 vs Winner of Series 3


Final

Source
Basketball IrelandComortais


Awards


Player of the Month


Coach of the Month


Statistics leaders

''Stats as of the end of the regular season''


Regular season

* Player of the Year: Lehmon Colbert (UCC Demons) * Young Player of the Year: Sean Flood (Templeogue) * Coach of the Year: Brian O'Malley (Killester) * All-Star First Picks: ** Michael Bonaparte (Templeogue) ** Lehmon Colbert (UCC Demons) **
Duane Johnson Duane Alexander Johnson (born April 2, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for União Corinthians of the Novo Basquete Brasil. He played college basketball for the East Stroudsburg Warriors, where he was part of four straight Pen ...
(DCU Saints) **
Jermaine Turner Jermaine Turner (born July 29, 1974) is an American-Irish former professional basketball player who spent the majority of his 17-year career playing in the Irish Super League. Turner first arrived in Ireland in 2000 following a season of college b ...
(Killester) ** Shawn Vanzant (Belfast Star) * All-Star Second Picks: ** Staats Battle (UL Eagles) ** Paul Dick (Killester) ** Sean Flood (Templeogue) ** Dan James (UCD Marian) ** Isaac Westbrooks (Swords Thunder) * All-Star Third Picks: ** Paul Cummins (Templeogue) ** Conor Grace (Templeogue) ** Jason Killeen (Templeogue) ** Dustan Moreira (UCD Marian) ** Mārtiņš Provizors (DCU Saints)


References

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