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The meeting resolved to form a two-round competition between these teams to be held in July and August in 1981. The basis for the idea was that many of the top sides in both states wanted a varied competition from their standard state leagues as well as a suitable preparation for the
Australian Club
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On 4 October 1980, during the
Australian Women’s Club Championship in Sydney, a meeting of delegates from six of the leading clubs in Australian women’s basketball was held. The clubs were North Adelaide Rockets, West Adelaide Bearcats and Glenelg from
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A major consideration was finance and with this in mind the competition was formed with the six teams with a full home and away series between all teams with three games on one weekend to save costs. The
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The inaugural winner was St. Kilda Saints defeating North
Adelaide Rockets 77 points to 58. St. Kilda Saints also went on to win the Victorian State Championship and the Australian Club Championship in
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The competition was named the Women’s
Interstate Basketball Conference with each the teams paying the sum of $ 25 to be a part of the WIBC – giving a central fund of $ 200 to conduct the competition.
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in 1979, the women felt that one of the best ways to develop the game was to provide more opportunities for the best players and clubs to play against each other more regularly.
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Sutherland Sharks were not happy due to costs and offered to pay their own way to Melbourne and Adelaide where they would play each team once for double points.
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contacted the clubs and asked whether the AIS could also participate in the competition to commence later that year.
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Championship, which was held on an annual basis for the top 24 teams in the country. With the formation of the men's
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The competition commenced on 19 June 1981 with the first game to be played in
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824:"Media Guide 2011/12: Records & Statistics"
142:Women's Interstate Basketball Conference (WIBC)
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221:The ladder at the end of the regular season.
195:was also opened and the men's head coach Dr.
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33:Women's National Basketball League
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91:Julie Nykiel (Noarlunga Tigers)
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433:Catholic Young Men's Society
193:Australian Institute of Sport
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753:Australian representatives
174:National Basketball League
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338:West Adelaide Bearcats
276:North Adelaide Rockets
861:Cite journal requires
707:North Adelaide Rockets
112:North Adelaide Rockets
109: Runners-up
83:North Adelaide Rockets
833:: 142. Archived from
794:"History of the WNBL"
731:Melbourne Telstars
369:Melbourne Telstars
804:on 1 December 2011
528:Sutherland Sharks
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307:St. Kilda Saints
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104:St. Kilda Saints
24:1981 WIBC season
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57:Number of teams
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757:Karen Ogden
132:1982 →
1240:Categories
844:23 January
808:23 January
767:References
747:defeating
260:Won %
146:Australian
88:Top scorer
43:Basketball
745:Melbourne
184:teams of
101:Champions
204:Adelaide
166:Victoria
151:(WNBL).
80:Top seed
49:Duration
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1208:2023–24
1203:2022–23
1198:2021–22
1188:2019–20
1168:2018–19
1163:2017–18
1158:2016–17
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1078:2003–04
1073:2002–03
1068:2001–02
1063:2000–01
1058:1999–00
1038:1998–99
390:111.96
328:118.77
297:116.69
255:Against
155:History
125:←
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556:Finals
549:83.95
518:88.57
485:86.52
454:96.07
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359:94.69
235:Played
217:Ladder
96:Finals
29:League
1179:2020s
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1049:2000s
984:1990s
922:1980s
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245:Lost
230:Team
140:The
127:None
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