2017–18 Swiss Basketball League

The 2017–18 Swiss Basketball League (SBL) season was the 87th season of the top tier basketball league in Switzerland.

Swiss Basketball League
Duration	October 2017 – 9 June 2018
Teams	12
Finals
Champions	Fribourg Olympic (17th title)
Runners-up	Lions de Genève
Semifinalists	Lugano Tigers SAM Massagno
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Competition format

All teams will play two times against each other for completing 22 games per team.

The six first qualified teams will join the group for places 1 to 6 while the other six teams will play the group for places 7 to 12. These two groups will be played with a one-legged round-robin format, where all teams from group 1 to 6 and the two first qualified teams from the group for the seventh position will be qualified for the playoffs. In this intermediate stage, teams start with the points accumulated by the winnings achieved in the first stage.

The quarterfinals and the semifinals will be played as a best-of-five series while the final in a best-of-seven series.^[1]

Teams

Boncourt

Fribourg

Genève

Vevey

Winterthur

Lugano

Massagno

Monthey

Neuchâtel

Basel

Swiss Central

Pully

Clubs of the 2017–18 SBL season

BBC Lausanne did not continue playing in the SBL and was replaced by Pully and Vevey Riviera.

Team	Location
SAM Basket Massagno	Massagno
Boncourt	Boncourt
Fribourg Olympic	Fribourg
Lions de Genève	Geneva
Lugano Tigers	Lugano
Monthey	Monthey
Pully	Pully
Starwings Regio Basel	Basel
Swiss Central Basket	Lucerne
Union Neuchâtel	Neuchâtel
Vevey Riviera	Vevey
Winterthur	Winterthur

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fribourg Olympic	22	20	2	1904	1528	+376	40	Qualification to group 1–6
2	Lions de Genève	22	19	3	1854	1589	+265	38
3	Lugano Tigers	22	18	4	1959	1651	+308	36
4	Union Neuchâtel	22	13	9	1786	1647	+139	26
5	SAM Basket Massagno	22	13	9	1566	1468	+98	26
6	Boncourt Red Team	22	11	11	1793	1803	−10	22
7	Monthey	22	10	12	1623	1577	+46	20	Qualification to group 7–12
8	Pully Lausanne Foxes	22	9	13	1714	1795	−81	18
9	Starwings Regio Basel	22	7	15	1648	1836	−188	14
10	Swiss Central	22	7	15	1591	1814	−223	14
11	Riviera Lakers	22	3	19	1397	1691	−294	6
12	Winterthur	22	2	20	1517	1953	−436	4

Source: Swiss Basketball

Second stage

Group 1–6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fribourg Olympic	5	5	0	428	367	+61	50	Qualification to playoffs
2	Lions de Genève	5	3	2	373	358	+15	44
3	Lugano Tigers	5	3	2	396	392	+4	42
4	SAM Basket Massagno	5	2	3	400	404	−4	30
5	Union Neuchâtel	5	1	4	398	412	−14	28
6	Boncourt Red Team	5	1	4	414	476	−62	24

Source: Swiss Basketball

Group 7–12

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Monthey	5	4	1	359	297	+62	26	Qualification to playoffs
2	Pully Lausanne Foxes	5	3	2	413	384	+29	24
3	Starwings Regio Basel	5	3	2	419	424	−5	20
4	Swiss Central	5	2	3	372	442	−70	18
5	Riviera Lakers	5	3	2	359	329	+30	12
6	Winterthur	5	0	5	391	437	−46	4	Relegated to NLB

Source: Swiss Basketball

Play-offs

Seeded teams played at home games 1, 2, 5 and, in the finals, 7.

	Quarter-finals										Semi-finals										Final
	Fribourg Olympic					88	86	74
	Pully Lausanne Foxes					86	48	66
											Fribourg Olympic					83	87	95
											SAM Basket Massagno					69	67	64
	SAM Basket Massagno				70	81	67	66
	Union Neuchâtel				78	68	91	81
																					Fribourg Olympic			78	99	70	85	74
																					Lions de Genève			66	72	80	63	73
	Lions de Genève					83	85	74
	Monthey					63	64	59
											Lions de Genève				91	79	89	84
											Lugano Tigers				74	100	71	76
	Lugano Tigers					103	115	86
	Boncourt Red Team					95	67	75

Source:^[2]