Bahía Basket is a professional

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team based in

Bahía Blanca Bahía Blanca (; English: ''White Bay''), colloquially referred to by its own local inhabitants as simply Bahía, is a city in the Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires province of Argentina, centered on the northwestern end of the eponymous Blanc ...

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. The club plays in the

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(LNB), the top division of the Argentine league system as a successor of

Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca Club Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca is an Argentine sports club based in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its basketball team, that currently played in the main levels of Argentina, including Campeonato Argentino an ...

after the club sold its vacant position in the league. Bahía Basket's first home venue was

Estadio Osvaldo Casanova Estadio Osvaldo Casanova, nicknamed ''La Catedral'', is an arena located in the city of Bahía Blanca in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. Owned and operated by local club Estudiantes, the arena is mainly used to host basketball and volleyb ...

, rented to its owner, Estudiantes. Since 2020, Bahía Basket venue is the Dow Center, with capacity for 4,000 spectators.

History

Bahía Basket began as a personal project of former player Pepe Sánchez in an attempt to keep Bahía Blanca's place in the top division of Argentine basketball. Initially, the main sponsor of the project was the Weber Saint-Gobain Group, which gave assistant in administration issues, Dow Center is a 7,500m2

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inspired on university campus and training facilities of the

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.El Dow Center, el revolucionario centro de formación de "Pepe" Sánchez
Ambito Financiero, 5 June 2019 Until the Dow Center was inaugurated, the senior team trained at "Polideportivo Norte", built on abandoned sheds. It is currently used for the youth divisions.

Players

Current roster

Notable players

Juan Ignacio Sánchez ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philip ...

(2010–13) *

Juan Espil Juan Alberto Espil Vanotti (born 5 January 1968) is a retired Argentine-Italian professional basketball player, who played as a shooting guard-small forward. Professional career Espil's last pro club was Bahía Basket (successor of Estudiantes ...

(2010–12) * Víctor Baldo *

Hernán Jasen Hernán "Pancho" Emilio Jasen Cicarelli (born February 4, 1978) is an Argentine-Italian former professional basketball player. Born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, and standing at a height of 6'6 " (1.99 m) tall, he played mainly at the small forwa ...

(2012–18) * Lucio Redivo (2012–17) * Juan Pablo Vaulet (2014) * Trevor Gaskins (2014–15) *

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(2010–11)

Retired numbers

As Bahía Basket is recognised as a continuity of Estudiantes in the LNB, the club retired the same numbers than its predecessor. ;Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Estudiantes de Bahia Blanca Basketball teams in Buenos Aires Province Basketball teams established in 2010