NEWS RELEASE
NIAGARA RIVER LIONS
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ST. CATHARINES — The Niagara River Lions of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) announced its 20-game 2024 season schedule presented by Crime Stoppers Niagara. The River Lions open the season with a home-and-home against the Brampton Honey Badgers first traveling to the CAA Centre on May 24 before hosting the Honey Badgers at the Meridian Centre on May 30. Niagara splits their first four games of the season home and away before a three-game road trip.
The River Lions will head into their sixth season in the CEBL after finishing the 2023 campaign in first place after the regular season with a league best record of 13-7. The team earned an automatic bye to Championship Weekend in Vancouver where they were eliminated in the semi finals by the eventual champion, the Scarborough Shooting Stars.
Within the Eastern Conference, the River Lions will play the Ottawa Blackjacks four times, and the Brampton Honey Badgers, Scarborough Shooting Stars and Montréal Alliance each three times. As for the Western Conference, Niagara will play the Winnipeg Sea Bears and the Edmonton Stingers each twice then the Vancouver Bandits, the Calgary Surge and the Saskatchewan Rattlers once.
Highlights of the Niagara River Lions schedule include:
- A total of 20 regular season games over 10 weeks
- 10 games at the Meridian Center in St. Catharines, 10 road games
- 4 Thursday, 2 Saturday, 1 Friday and 1 Wednesday night home games
- 1 Sunday afternoon home game
- 1 School day game at home on Wednesday June 19th at 11:00am
- Winnipeg Sea Bears will visit the Meridian Centre on Thursday June 6th for their first time since joining the CEBL in 2023.
- 6 of final 8 regular season games are at home
- Close the regular season with and home and home versus Ottawa Blackjacks
The CEBL season culminates at 2024 Championship Weekend (CW24) in Montréal from Aug. 9-11. Host Montréal, along with the top-ranked team from the Western Conference, will automatically be seeded into the Conference Finals at Championship Weekend. The full playoff schedule, including the Play-In and Conference Semifinal games, will be announced at a later date.
The 2024 broadcast schedule with all nationally televised games on TSN will be announced at a later date. All games, including playoffs, will be streamed live on the CEBL’s OTT platform, CEBL+ Powered by BetVictor, on CEBL Mobile, the official app of the CEBL (available on Android and iOS devices), and on TSN+.
For full schedule details visit www.riverlions.ca/schedule
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