1977–78 National Basketball League season
{{Infobox sports season
| title = 1977–78 National Basketball League season
| league = National Basketball League
| sport = Basketball
| duration =
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| no_of_teams = 10
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| playoffs = Roll of Honour
| conf1 = National League
| conf1_link =
| conf1_champ = Cinzano Crystal Palace
| conf1_runner-up = Milton Keynes Embassy All-Stars
| National Cup =
| conf2 = National Cup
| conf2_link =
| conf2_champ = Cinzano Crystal Palace
| conf2_runner-up = Coventry Team Fiat
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| seasonslist = List of English National Basketball League seasons
| seasonslistnames = National Basketball League
| prevseason_link =
| prevseason_year = 1976–77
| nextseason_link =
| nextseason_year = 1978–79
}}
The 1977–78 Guinness National Basketball League season was the sixth season of the National Basketball League.{{cite book|last=Matthews & Morrison|first=Peter & Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records & Results|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}
The league was sponsored by Guinness and the number of teams participating remained at ten. The Loughborough team moved to Leicester, while Exeter and Stockport replaced the Avenue and Durham teams.
The Crystal Palace team completed a third consecutive double of National League and Cup. There were no playoffs for the League during this era and the previous system of awarding one point to losing teams in the league table was scrapped.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketballengland.co.uk/fixtures-and-results/national-league-archive/senior-men-league|title=Men's Senior League Winners|publisher=Basketball England}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
National League
=First Division=
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!width=300| Team !width=20| P !width=20| W !width=20| L !width=25| F !width=25| A !width=20| Pts | |||||||
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|1 | align="left"| Cinzano Crystal Palace | 18 | 18 | 0 | 1881 | 1343 | 36 |
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|2 | align="left"| Milton Keynes Embassy All-Stars | 18 | 16 | 2 | 1858 | 1626 | 32 |
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|3 | align="left"| Coventry Team Fiat | 18 | 12 | 6 | 1820 | 1668 | 24 |
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|4 | align="left"| Doncaster Wilson Panthers | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1734 | 1658 | 20 |
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|5 | align="left"| Bowmer & Kirkland Leicester All-Stars | 18 | 9 | 9 | 1579 | 1571 | 18 |
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|6 | align="left"| Stockport Belgrade | 18 | 9 | 9 | 1593 | 1614 | 18 |
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|7 | align="left"| Manchester ATS Giants | 18 | 8 | 10 | 1637 | 1625 | 16 |
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|8 | align="left"| London 'Y' Metros | 18 | 5 | 13 | 1643 | 1702 | 9* |
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|9 | align="left"| Exeter St Lukes TSB | 18 | 3 | 15 | 1547 | 1842 | 6 |
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|10 | align="left"| Bedford Vauxhall Motors | 18 | 0 | 18 | 1318 | 1979 | 0 |
=Second Division=
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|1 | align="left"| EPAB Sunderland | 20 | 20 | 0 | 2151 | 1614 | 40 |
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|2 | align="left"| Leatherhead | 20 | 17 | 3 | 1761 | 1429 | 34 |
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|3 | align="left"| Telefusion Blackpool | 20 | 14 | 6 | 2107 | 1856 | 28 |
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|4 | align="left"| Seensee Maidenhead Sonics | 20 | 12 | 8 | 1926 | 1856 | 24 |
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|5 | align="left"| Hemel Hempstead Lakers | 20 | 10 | 10 | 1713 | 1646 | 20 |
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|6 | align="left"| Avenue Islington | 20 | 9 | 11 | 1560 | 1551 | 20 |
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|7 | align="left"| Nottingham | 20 | 9 | 11 | 1755 | 1841 | 18 |
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|8 | align="left"| Bromley | 20 | 5 | 15 | 1793 | 2051 | 10 |
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|9 | align="left"| Derby CFE | 20 | 4 | 16 | 1409 | 1730 | 9* |
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|10 | align="left"| Miles Mustangs | 20 | 4 | 16 | 1513 | 1807 | 8 |
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|11 | align="left"| Birmingham Bulldogs | 20 | 4 | 16 | 1646 | 1953 | 8 |
Guinness National Cup Final
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| date = April 01
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| teamA = Cinzano Crystal Palace
| scoreA = 89
| scoreB = 87
| teamB = Coventry Team Fiat
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| points2 = Steve Assinder 24
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| place = Wembley Arena
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See also
References
{{Reflist}}
{{National Basketball League (England)}}
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