2017â18 Pro B season | ||||||||||
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Season | 2017â18 | |||||||||
Number of teams | 18 | |||||||||
Regular season | ||||||||||
Season MVP |
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Promoted |
Blois Fos Provence | |||||||||
Relegated |
Le Havre Ătoile Charleville-MĂ©ziĂšres | |||||||||
Finals | ||||||||||
Champions |
Blois (1st title) | |||||||||
Statistical leaders | ||||||||||
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The 2017â18 Pro B season was the 31st season of the Pro B, the top basketball league in France organised by the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB). Blois won its first league title.
OrlĂ©ans Loiret and SLUC Nancy entered the league after they relegated from the 2016â17 Pro A season. [1] [2] UJAP Quimper 29 and Caen Basket Calvados were promoted from the 2016â17 NM1 season. [3] [4]
In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The table leader will promote to the Pro A while the numbers two until nine qualify for the promotion playoffs. The last two placed teams are relegated to the NM1.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | ADA Blois 41 (C, P) | 34 | 27 | 7 | Promotion to Pro A |
2 | Chorale Roanne | 34 | 26 | 8 | Qualification for promotion playoffs |
3 | Orléans Loiret | 34 | 25 | 9 | |
4 | Fos Provence (O, P) | 34 | 24 | 10 | |
5 | Lille MĂ©tropole | 34 | 23 | 11 | |
6 | Saint-Chamond | 34 | 22 | 12 | |
7 | SLUC Nancy | 34 | 19 | 15 | |
8 | Rouen MĂ©tropole | 34 | 17 | 17 | |
9 | ALM Ăvreux | 34 | 16 | 18 | |
10 | Denain Voltaire [a] | 34 | 16 | 18 | Qualification for promotion playoffs |
11 | AMSB | 34 | 15 | 19 | |
12 | JA Vichy-Clermont MĂ©tropole | 34 | 14 | 20 | |
13 | Hermine Nantes | 34 | 12 | 22 | |
14 | Caen Calvados | 34 | 12 | 22 | |
15 | UJAP Quimper 29 | 34 | 11 | 23 | |
16 | Poitiers 86 | 34 | 11 | 23 | |
17 | STB Le Havre | 34 | 10 | 24 | Relegation to NM1 |
18 | UJAP Quimper 29 | 34 | 11 | 23 |
The seven highest ranked seeds in the regular season, excluding the league champions, qualify for the promotion playoffs. They are joined by the winner of the LNB Pro B Leaders Cup. All rounds of the promotion playoffs are played in a best-of-three format.
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||
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Chorale Roanne | 68 | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Denain Voltaire | 60 | 54 | ||||||||||||||
2
Chorale Roanne | 83 | 52 | 71 | |||||||||||||
5
Lille MĂ©tropole | 36 | 77 | 55 | |||||||||||||
5
Lille MĂ©tropole | 81 | 80 | ||||||||||||||
6
Saint-Chamond | 65 | 56 | ||||||||||||||
2
Chorale Roanne | 68 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
4
Fos Provence | 72 | 76 | ||||||||||||||
3
Orléans | 112 | 76 | 85 | |||||||||||||
8
Rouen MĂ©tropole | 110 | 77 | 86 | |||||||||||||
8
Rouen MĂ©tropole | 75 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
4
Fos Provence | 79 | 92 | ||||||||||||||
4
Fos | 77 | 73 | ||||||||||||||
7
SLUC Nancy | 62 | 60 | ||||||||||||||
The winner of the LNB Pro B Leaders Cup automatically qualified for the promotion playoffs as the top seeded team. The quarter- and semi-finals in the Leaders Cup are played in two-legged format. The Final was played on 18 February in Disneyland Paris. Prior to the final eight teams, teams played in six groups of three teams to determine which teams would qualify for the quarter-finals.
Quarterfinals 24â31 October | Semifinals 14 Novemberâ5 December | Final 18 February | ||||||||||||||
SLUC Nancy | 64 | 64 | 128 | |||||||||||||
Denain Voltaire | 74 | 66 | 140 | |||||||||||||
Denain Voltaire | 65 | 59 | 124 | |||||||||||||
STB Le Havre | 65 | 91 | 156 | |||||||||||||
STB Le Havre | 81 | 64 | 145 | |||||||||||||
Fos Provence | 73 | 69 | 142 | |||||||||||||
Denain Voltaire ( ot) | 98 | |||||||||||||||
Orléans Loiret | 87 | |||||||||||||||
ALM Ăvreux | 73 | 93 | 166 | |||||||||||||
Orléans Loiret | 82 | 96 | 178 | |||||||||||||
Orléans Loiret | 68 | 92 | 160 | |||||||||||||
Hermine Nantes | 59 | 78 | 137 | |||||||||||||
ADA Blois 41 | 85 | 71 | 156 | |||||||||||||
Hermine Nantes | 87 | 72 | 159 | |||||||||||||
Month | Player | Team | PIR | Ref. |
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October |
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Orléans Loiret | 22.5 | [5] |
November |
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Orléans Loiret | 23.7 | [6] |
December |
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ADA Blois | 16.5 | [7] |
January |
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ADA Blois | 22.0 | [8] |
February |
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UJAP Quimper 29 | 21.3 | [9] |
March |
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Chorale Roanne | 17.0 | [10] |
April |
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Saint-Chamond | 19.0 | [11] |
May |
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Lille MĂ©tropole | 21.5 | [12] |