Ratiopharm Ulm

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Ratiopharm Ulm

Ratiopharm Ulm is a basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....
club located in Ulm

Ulm

Ulm is a city in the Germany States of Germany of Baden-W?rttemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau ....
, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. The club has two teams, one professional team, which plays in the Basketball Bundesliga

Basketball Bundesliga

In German basketball, the Basketball Bundesliga is the highest level club competition where play determines the national champion.A national basketball league was first organized for play in 1939....
, the major German professional league and one youth team, which plays in the so-called NBBL (Nachwuchs Basketball-Bundesliga).

History
club was founded in 2001 after the previous professional basketball team in Ulm, run by the sports-club SSV Ulm 1846, became insolvent and had to resign from the league.

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Ratiopharm Ulm is a basketball

Basketball

Ulm

Germany

Basketball Bundesliga

Current Players

History

Early years

The club was founded in 2001 after the previous professional basketball team in Ulm, run by the sports-club SSV Ulm 1846, became insolvent and had to resign from the league. Dr. Thomas Stoll and Andreas Oettel, the current CEO of the Basketball Ulm/Alb-Donau GmbH, which is the owner of the club, bought the license of the former team and started a second division team. After playing in the second division for five years, the team qualified for the Basketball Bundesliga

Basketball Bundesliga

The season 2006/2007

Led by Headcoach Mike Taylor and Assistant coach Rainer Bauer the team headed into their first season in the Basketball Bundesliga as the team with the smallest funds and the smallest arena in the league. With just two new players for the starting five, the team was seen by the media and many experts as the team most likely to be relegated to the second division again after the season. But due to a well-rehearsed team, with only a few players changed in the off-season, the team had some big upset wins and remained in the league with a 16-18 record. At the end of the season Point Guard

Point guard

Point guard , also called the one or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. Point guards are often the smallest players on the court ....
Austen Rowland had the league's best assists per game rate and Power Forward

Power forward (basketball)

Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF"....
Jeff Gibbs became the best rebounder in the league and was nominated as a starting-five player for the All-Star game.

The season 2007/2008

Still a club with one of the smallest funds in the league, the team experienced some major changes in the pre-season of their second year in the Bundesliga because starting point guard

Point guard

Shooting guard

The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional Basketball position on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forward s....
Jonathan Levy left the team while starting small forward

Small forward

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Emeka Erege received a serious injury during an exhibition game. Nevertheless, the team was ranked eighth in the league after 16 of 34 games with a 9-6 record.

Miscellaneous

The home arena of the team is the Kuhberghalle, an indoor sporting arena with a capacity of approximately 3,000 spectators . It is sometimes called "Kuhberghölle" ("Kuhberg-hell)" because of the sound volume of the cheering fans.

The mascots of the team are a rabbit, which resembles Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
and is called "Spass" ("fun"), and a coyote called "Ernst" ("Ernest").

The main sponsor of the team is the pharmaceutical company Ratiopharm

Ratiopharm

Ratiopharm is a Germany pharmaceutical company that is Europe's leading Generic drug brand.Ratiopharm was owned by Adolf Merckle and makes generic Pharmaceuticals....
.

The team colors are orange, white, and black.

External links

official web site