The unending nonsense: Irish basketball's wild title race

Emmet Ryan on how the men’s Super League isn’t just crazy by basketball standards, it’s downright historic for sport as a whole

Jason Killeen of Templeogue and Scott Kinevane of UCD Marian, whose teams are both still in the title race.

The most disappointing phrase in television is, was, and long will be: “Anything can happen in the next 30 minutes.” The intro to Stingray promised action, instead it delivered a really dull version of Thunderbirds.

If you are going to build the people up, you’d better be sure you are going to deliver. There was no talk of a wild run-in for the Irish men’s basketball season whenTempleogue beat UCD Marian for the cup title at the end of January. The Students had lost the cup title but looked to have plenty of room to avoid being drawn into a bloodbath of a title race.