2016–17 BLNO season

The 2016–17 BLNO is the 17th season of the Basketball League of Norway since its establishment.

BLNO
Teams	10
Finals
Champions	Centrum Tigers
Runners-up	Gimle
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Centrum Tigers won its second league after beating Gimle in the single-game final.

Format

The ten participating teams first played the regular season, that consisted in a round-robin schedule containing three rounds with every team playing each opponent at least once home and once away for a total of 27 matches.

At the end of the regular season, the top eight teams qualified for the playoffs. Quarterfinals and semifinals were played with a best-of-three format and the final is played as a single game.^[1]

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kongsberg Miners	27	23	4	2413	1982	+431	50	Qualification to playoffs
2	Bærum	27	21	6	2481	2147	+334	48
3	Gimle	27	17	10	2309	2130	+179	44
4	Frøya	27	17	10	2157	2020	+137	44
5	Centrum Tigers	27	16	11	2282	2058	+224	43
6	Asker Aliens	27	13	14	2126	2212	−86	40
7	Nidaros Jets	27	12	15	2063	2168	−105	39
8	Tromsø Storm	27	9	18	1829	2028	−199	36
9	Ammerud	27	5	22	1858	2303	−445	32
10	Persbråten	27	2	25	1855	2325	−470	29	Relegated

Source: BLNO

Playoffs

Teams better qualified in the regular season played games 2 and 3, if necessary, at home. Only in the semifinal between Kongsberg Miners and Centrum Tigers, the format of 1–1–1 was used.

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Kongsberg Miners	76	74	0
	Tromsø Storm	61	57	0
							Kongsberg Miners	60	84	0
							Centrum Tigers	86	86	0
	Frøya	68	73	0
	Centrum Tigers	94	75	0
													Centrum Tigers			87
													Gimle			74
	Bærum	96	102	0
	Nidaros Jets	82	94	0
							Bærum	91	87	0
							Gimle	101	91	0
	Gimle	93	90	0
	Asker Aliens	69	61	0