AAGPS (NSW) Basketball

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{{Infobox organization

| name = AAGPS Basketball

| full_name = Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales Basketball

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| formation = 1975

| headquarters = Sydney, NSW, Australia

| membership = The King's School
Sydney Grammar School
Newington College
Saint Ignatius' College
St Joseph's College
Sydney Boys High School
Sydney Church of England Grammar School
The Scots College

| website = http://aagps.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/basketball

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The NSW AAGPS (Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales) is a school basketball competition played in Australia. It is an annual, 14 round competition played between 8 Sydney member teams that include Saint Ignatius Riverview, St Joseph's Hunters Hill, Sydney Grammar, Sydney Boys High, Newington College, Scots College, The Kings school and Sydney Church Of England Grammar School (Shore). Preseason games are played in Term 3-4 school holidays in the Knox Invitational tournament and Raschke Cup as well as the Trinity Challenge in Summer, with the official GPS games played in Term 4 and 1 on Saturday. 1st grade games commence at 11:45 and often attract large crowds, whilst second grade games commence at 10:00. The 1st grade premiership is currently held by Newington College while the Rashcke cup is held by Newington College. In 2nd grade the premiership is held by St Ignatius College, Riverview and The Scots College while the PJ Yeend Trophy is currently held by Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview.

Every season the AAGPS/RASCHKE Cup (all AAGPS schools compete) is played (formerly in a one-week before Round 1, in a 2-day round robin formatted competition) over the trial rounds, with the schools being separated into two pools, with the winner of each group playing each other in the final. This cup is the 2nd most prestigious accolade from a season. In near consecutive seasons of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Saint Ignatius College Riverview have made the final, in which they have been victorious 4 times (13, 15, 17, 18).

Commencement

The competition commenced in 1975.{{cite web|url=https://www.aagps.nsw.edu.au/page-history/|title=AAGPS History|website=Athletic Association of Great Public Schools of NSW}}

First Teams compete for the Denys Hake Shield{{Cite web|url=http://aagps.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/basketball/trophies/|title=Trophies {{!}} AAGPS|website=aagps.nsw.edu.au|access-date=2019-05-09}} which was first awarded in 1975, and was presented by The King's School Council in honour of the wife of a former Headmaster of King's, Herbert Denys Hake OBE.
Second Teams compete for The TE Bawden Shield{{Cite web|url=http://aagps.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/basketball/trophies/|title=Trophies {{!}} AAGPS|website=aagps.nsw.edu.au|access-date=2019-05-09}} which was first awarded in 1975. It was also presented by The King's School and named after the first GPS Convenor of Basketball, and later GPS Treasurer, Tom Bawden.
The AAGPS and CAS First Teams compete annually for the PJ Yeend Cup, presented by Basketball NSW.
The AAGPS and ISA First Teams compete annually for the McKay Cup.

Competition format

Seasons are a 14-round competition where each team plays each other twice, in 2013 the competition games were halved to 7 rounds with each team playing each other once, though the competition has since reverted a 14-round season. The season begins in Term 4, where teams will play trial matches against a mix of AAGPS, ISA, and CAS teams, including 3 rounds of Raschke Cup/Yeend Shield, where a pre-season winner will be crowned.

Term 1 begins the competition games where schools play each other every Saturday, 10am for 2nd V and 11:45am for 1st V. If a team is able to win 7 games they will be crowned Undefeated Champions and earn the outright AAGPS title.{{cite web |title=Riverview Sport Outline |website=riverview.nsw.edu.au |url=https://www.riverview.nsw.edu.au/teaching-and-learning/#co-curriculum-sports |accessdate=4 September 2020}}

Results

=1975 to 1999=

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ Results
bgcolor="#FFCC33" ! scope="col"\|Year ! scope="col"\|1st Grade ! scope="col"\|2nd Grade
1975	King's	King's
1976	King's	King's,St Joseph's
1977	Shore	King's
1978	St Ignatius',Shore{{cite journal\|author=SBHS\|title=[High] finished second behind the joint premiers\|journal=The Record\|year=1978\|page=94}}	King's
1979	Shore	St Joseph's
1980	King's	King's
1981	King's,St Joseph's	King's
1982	King's	King's
1983	King's	King's,High
1984	St Joseph's	St Joseph's
1985	20px Scots	20px Newington,King's
1986	20px Scots	St Joseph's
1987	Shore	St Joseph's
1988	Grammar	St Joseph's
1989	St Joseph's	20px Newington, St Joseph's
1990	20px Newington	St Joseph's
1991	St Joseph's	20px Newington, St Joseph's
1992	20px Newington	20px Newington
1993	St Joseph's	St Joseph's,Grammar
1994	High	St Ignatius'
1995	20px Newington	St Joseph's
1996	20px Newington	St Ignatius',Grammar,St Joseph's
1997	20px Newington	St Joseph's
1998	20px Newington	St Joseph's
1999	20px Scots	20px Scots

=2000 onwards=

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ Results{{Cite web\|url=http://aagps.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/basketball/premiership-history/\|title=Premiership History {{!}} AAGPS\|website=aagps.nsw.edu.au\|access-date=2019-05-09}}
bgcolor="#FFCC33" ! scope="col"\|Year ! scope="col"\|1st Grade ! scope="col"\|2nd Grade
2000	20px Scots{{asterisk}}	20px Scots
2001	20px Scots{{asterisk}}	Shore
2002	Shore{{asterisk}}	Shore{{asterisk}}
2003	Shore{{asterisk}}	Shore
2004	20px Scots{{asterisk}}	Grammar/St. Ignatius'
2005	20px Newington{{asterisk}}	20px Newington
2006	Kings	Shore
2007	Shore	St. Ignatius'
2008	20px Newington	St. Ignatius'
2009	20px Newington{{asterisk}}	St. Ignatius'
2010	20px Newington	20px Newington{{asterisk}}
2011	20px Newington, High, 20px Scots	20px Newington{{asterisk}}
2012	High, 20px Scots	20px Scots{{asterisk}}
2013	20px Scots{{asterisk}}	High{{asterisk}}
2014	High{{asterisk}}	St Josephs, St Ignatius' {{asterisk}}
2015	Newington/High	20px Scots/High
2016 \|Newington College \|Newington College/20px Scots
2017 \|Newington College \|Saint Ignatius College, Riverview (Undefeated)
2018 \|Newington College{{asterisk}} \|Saint Ignatius College, Riverview{{asterisk}}
2019 \|Saint Ignatius College, Riverview{{asterisk}} (AAGPS and NSWCIS CHAMPIONS) \|Saint Ignatius College, Riverview{{asterisk}}
2020 \|20px Scots \|Shore/Newington College
2021 \|Shore{{asterisk}} (undefeated AAGPS AND NSWCIS CHAMPIONS) \| St Ignatius College, Riverview
2022 \|20px Newington \|20px Newington
2023 \|20px Newington \|20px Newington
2024 \|20px Newington \|St Ignatius College, Riverview/ 20px Scots