BSW (basketball club)

Basketball Stars Weert, commonly known as BSW, was a professional basketball team based in Weert, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1968 and played in the Dutch Basketball League. Home games of the team are played in the Sporthal Boshoven.

The club was a regular participant in the Dutch top division, as the side from Weert appeared in the Eredivisie (later DBL) for 34 straight seasons. The highlight of the club was the national championship in the 1993–94 season. The club finished three times as runner-up in the DBL: in 1988, 1993 and 2001. As well, BSW made European appearances with the most notable being the one in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, the highest European level, in 1994–95.

In 2017 the club was dissolved after financial problems and the inability to gain enough money to participate. However, the club was replaced by BAL from Weert.

Names
BSW has known a lot of different names in its history, mainly because of sponsorship reasons.


 * 1982–1984 : Coveco
 * 1984–1987 : Kaypro
 * 1987–1990 : Miniware
 * 1990–1993 : Selex
 * 1993–1996 : Lanèche
 * 1996–2000 : BS Weert
 * 2000–2002 : Vanilla
 * 2002–2003 : BS Weert
 * 2003–2004 : Solskin
 * 2004–2005 : BS Weert
 * 2005–2010 : Upstairs Weert
 * 2010–2011 : BS Weert
 * 2011–2013 : Stepco
 * 2013–2014 : Maxxcom
 * 2014–2017: BS Weert

Notable players
• 🇺🇸 Kevin McDuffie

• Richard van Poelgeest

• 🇺🇸 Sonique Nixon

• 🇺🇸 Ralph Biggs

• 🇺🇸 Terence Stansbury

• 🇺🇸 Rahmon Fletcher

• 🇺🇸 Glenn Stokes

• Niels Vorenhout

• Jeremy Ormskerk

• Kenneth van Kempen

Honours

 * Dutch Basketball League
 * Winners (1): 1993–94
 * NBB Cup
 * Runners-up (3): 1992–93, 1993–94, 2000–01

European record

 * Notes