2023-24 YBA season

The 2023-24 season of the Ysqsy Basketball Association (YBA) is the first season of the highest tier of amateur basketball in Ysqsylandia, featuring clubs in, and around the country's capital city. The league's ten-week regular season will start on December 2nd of 2023 and will end on February 17, 2024, with a two-week break in between for Christmas and New Year's Day. It will be followed by the play-offs, featuring the top four clubs.

Clubs

There are six teams currently competing in the YBA. Below is a table listing each team's stadiums and locations.

2023-24 YBA teams

Teams	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Armed Forces	Ysqsy City	National Armory	1,900
Capital Juniors	Ysqsy City	911Bet Arena	3,000
Capital Swans	Ysqsy City	911Bet Arena	3,000
Police	St. Vincent	St. Vincent Community Arena	900
Union	Ysqsy City	CryptoPark	1,300
University	Ysqsy City	University Arena	2,000

Format

Regular season

The regular season has the six teams competing playing in a double round-robin. In other words, all teams will play 10 matches each. It will be held in the dates already mentioned in the introduction of the article. The top four teams at the end of this stage will qualify for the play-offs. The teams will be ranked based on wins. In case of a tie on wins, these tiebreakers will apply:

1. Head-to-head ranking
2. Point difference
3. Points scored
4. Drawing of lots.

Play-offs

The play-offs will be contested using the Page playoff system.

• Semifinals: best-of-three series.
  • Minor semifinal: #3 seed plays against #4 seed. The winner qualifies to the preliminary final.
  • Major semifinal: #1 seed plays against #2 seed. The winner qualifies to the final. The loser goes on to the preliminary final.
• Preliminary final: best-of-three series. The winner qualifies to the final.
• Final: best-of-one series. The winner wins the YBA championship.

Table

Pos	2023–24 YBA regular season
	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	PF	PA	PD	Last 5
1	Union	2	2	0	100%	195	178	+17	2-0
2	Capital Swans	2	2	0	100%	209	202	+7	2-0
3	Capital Juniors	2	1	1	50%	209	211	-2	1-1
4	Police	2	1	1	50%	193	172	+21	1-1
5	University	2	0	2	0%	175	195	-20	0-2
6	Armed Forces	2	0	2	0%	168	191	-23	0-2

Fixtures

An asterisk is added to the final score for each overtime period played.

Rd	Date	Hour	Home team	Score	Away team	Arena
1	December 2, 2023	18:00	Police	99-77	Armed Forces	Municipal Colosseum
		19:20	University	87-103	Union
		20:40	Capital Juniors	114-117	Capital Swans
2	December 8	18:50	Armed Forces	91-92	Union	National Armory
	December 9	20:00	Police	94-95	Capital Juniors	Municipal Colosseum
	December 10	15:00	Capital Swans	92-88**	University	911Bet Arena

Play-offs

	Semifinals							Preliminary final							Final
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