Basketball in Ireland is pretty popular.
Maybe we’re guilty of not giving it enough coverage in the mainstream media but that’s not to say that we never do it.
The last time we covered Irish basketball was when Lorcan Murphy actually ruined the basket in his match against DCU.
Murphy was back in action at the weekend dunking away and we’ll get to that but firstly the DCU Saints were also playing.
They were against Griffith College Swords Thunder in the Hula Hoops Men’s Pat Duffy National Cup with Swords being the reigning champions.
It was meant to be a formality, DCU might put up half a fight but Swords should have just blown them away in the end, they were the favourites after all.
But this is why we love sport, the favourites don’t win all the time and upsets are sweet, the DCU Saints caused that upset at the weekend.
The final scoreline read 75-70 in favour of DCU Saints and, no doubt, they were ecstatic. So much so that they took to Twitter to absolutely ruin their local rivals.
In the week of Ex-hurricane Ophelia and Storm Brian, DCU decided they’d get in to the spirit of things and poke fun at Griffith College Swords Thunder.
Weather forecast for National Cup; High chance of Lightening, Zero chance of Thunder #SorryNotSorry pic.twitter.com/cdsdLfUVvS
— St. Vincent's Basketball Club (@stvincentsbball) October 21, 2017
And the reaction was as expected.
Ouch! 🙈
— Basketball Ireland (@BballIrl) October 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/templeogue_bc/status/921845642263179265
Black Amber Templeogue were also in action at the weekend, they beat Belfast Star 90-81 and that was with the help of their star man Lorcan Murphy.
Murphy has made a bit of a name for himself, he likes to dunk.
What’s that saying, ‘Irish men CAN jump’.
Anyway, here he is warming up just reverse dunking because why not?
Here is the full list of results from the weekend’s games:
Hula Hoops Men’s Pat Duffy National Cup:
Griffith College Swords Thunder 70-75 DCU Saints
Black Amber Templeogue 90-81 Belfast Star
KUBS 47-101 UCC Demons
Moycullen 79-71 Maree
Basketball Ireland Men’s Super League
UCD Marian 66-91 Pyrobel Killester
Basketball Ireland Women’s Super League:
NUIG Mystics 70-76 Ambassador UCC Glanmire
Pyrobel Killester 78-64 Portlaoise Panthers
Courtyard Liffey Celtics 66-65 Singleton SuperValu Brunell
DCU Mercy 74-69 IT Carlow Basketball
Hula Hoops Men’s Presidents Cup
LYIT Donegal 82-84 Keane’s SuperValu Killorglin
IT Carlow Basketball 83-89 Neptune
Ballincollig 20-0 Dublin Lions
Fr Mathews 99-76 LIT Celtics
Paris Texas Kilkenny 77-75 Ulster University Elks
Portlaoise Panthers 70-64 Ej Sligo All Stars
Basketball Ireland Women’s Division 1:
Marble City Hawks 55-53 Meteors
Fabplus North West 52-74 Fr Mathews
Ulster University Elks 72-78 Griffith College Swords Thunder
