UniCEUB/BRB

UniCEUB/BRB/Brasília
Leagues	NBB Liga Sudamericana
Founded	2000 (2000)
Arena	Ginásio Nilson Nelson (capacity: 16,000) Ginásio da ASCEB (capacity: 3,050)
Location	Brasília, Brazil
Team colors	White, Blue, Red
President	Homero Neto
Head coach	Bruno Savignani
Championships	4 Brazilian Basketball League 1 FIBA Americas League 3 Liga Sudamericana
Website	UniCEUB/BRB
Uniforms
Home Away

The Instituto Viver Basquetebol, known as UniCEUB/BRB/Brasília or simply Brasília, is a Brazilian professional basketball club, based in Brasília, Federal District. The team was founded in 2000, and renamed in 2009, been originally related to Salgado de Oliveira University (UNIVERSO), and currently associated to Centro Universitário de Brasília (UniCEUB). Their gyms are Nilson Nelson and ASCEB (minor games).

The lack of soccer tradition in Brasília contributed to the basketball team of UniCEUB/BRB be adopted as a local passion. The results inside the basketball court also favored the club consolidation, in special the third consecutive championship of Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB) won in 2011–2012 season, that led the team to reach the mark of four national titles in six consecutive finals.

In addition, UniCEUB/BRB was the first Brazilian team to have won the FIBA Americas League, the most important club tournament of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in the continent. In 2008–09 season the team won the title by defeating the Mexican Halcones Xalapa in their home.

History

2000-06: Creation and consolidation

The history of Instituto Viver Basquetebol (Living Basketball Institute) began in 2000 when University Salgado de Oliveira created in Brasilia its basketball team. Since its first year the team came to dominate the local scene of the Federal District, with the conquest of Metropolitan Basketball Championships, but only in 2003, from the investment of a weight sponsor as the BRB Bank, the team appeared for the first time on the national scene. That season, the so called Universo/BRB/Brasília won the Brazilian Basketball Supercup with a team of athletes with experience in the Brazilian National Team, such as Ratto, Alexey Carvalho and Sandro Varejao.

From the entrance of a larger capital, the return came naturally. With the title of the 2003 Supercup, the team earned a place in the 2004 Brazilian Basketball Championship. Maintained the cast of the previous year, the team won again the 2004 Supercup, ensuring presence for the second consecutive year in the national main competition.

With the continuity of work, the team, led at the time by José Roberto Lux, reached the 4th position in the 2005 Brazilian Basketball Championship. The following year, the team was put together to finally win the national title, but the outcome of the season until today generates controversy. Officially, the Brazilian Championship 2006 had not even end because the team from Brasilia filed an injunction in court claiming that one player from the TelemarRio de Janeiro, would playing irregularly hexagonal which defined the finalists.

2007-12: National hegemony

The year of 2007 marked the beginning of the so called Golden Age of Brasilia team, which would reach six consecutive national finals to win four Brazilian Championships, in addition to the trophies of the South American Basketball League and the League of the Americas. The team greatest run was possible thanks to the arrival of a group of former players COC/Ribeirao Preto, such as Nezinho, Alex Garcia, Arthur, Márcio Cipriano and Alirio.

In 2007, after an unbeaten run of 20 games,^[1] Brasilia obtained the national basketball attendance record in a match against Flamengo, with 24,286 people making noise in the Nilson Nelson Gymnasium. And in the final of the Championship that year, the consecration to the commanded by José Carlos Vidal: the national title over the traditional team of Franca. After the title, Alex left for a new international adventure, this time to play in Israel. Nezinho also left the team, going to defend Limeira team. And the team felt the departure of the two.

In the 2008 season, to replace the outgoing Nezinho and Alex, they were hired Valtinho and the North American Maurice Spillers. The team was again led by Lula Ferreira and was runner-up Brazilian Championship, losing the final to Flamengo by 3-0.

Alex Garcia returned to Brasilia in 2009, but the team again was Brazilian runner-up, this time in the first edition of the Brazilian New Basketball (NBB), losing the final again to Flamengo by the score of 3-2. Still, climbed a step and won the first international title of the group, being champion of the League of the Americas, winning the Finals played in Xalapa, Mexico, against the home team, Halcones Xalapa.

Determined to recover the highest position of Brazilian basketball, Universo/Brasília rehired Nezinho and repatriated Guilherme Giovannoni in 2010. The team then took revenge of Flamengo, and returned to clinch the National Champion winning the "Carioca Club" by 3-2 in the final of NBB2.^[2]

From next season, the team has to be sheltered by the University Center of Brasilia (UniCEUB). Political disagreements led the Universo to exchange Brasilia for the city of Uberlandia. With the change, they left Valtinho and Estevam, who were defending the colors of the new team, while the coach Lula Ferreira was replaced by Jose Carlos Vidal.

The group left over, changing the blue and white colors of Universo by the red and white of UniCEUB won the NBB3 again over Franca in the final, and the South American League on Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro.^[3] In 2012 the team still reach its fourth national title in that generation in the final in single game against São José.

2013-present: Cycle end and renewal

After six seasons of linked successes, the 2012-13 season was the first without titles for the team. The team was eliminated in the quarter-finals of NBB5 by São José losing the series by 3-2 with a painful defeat in the fifth game in full Nilson Nelson. Vidal has ceased to be the coach and the project sought renewal with the signing of Sergio Hernandez, triple winner of the Argentinian Championship of the seasons 2009-10, 2010–11 and 2011–12 with Peñarol de Mar del Plata, to be the new coach.

With Hernandez at charge, the team was champion of his second South American League,^[4] but it was not beyond the quarter-finals in NBB6, falling again facing São José, for 3-0. At the end of the season, Alex and Nezinho left the team, ending his victorious trajectories in the national capital. To reset the positions, the UniCEUB/ BRB/Brasilia announced the signing of experienced Fulvio for the 2014-15 season. Again under the instructions of Carlos Vidal, the team returned to be eliminated in the quarter-end of the NBB, this time losing to Limeira.

For the 2015-16 season, the Uniceub/BRB/Brasilia maintained the base of the previous year and invested in hiring young promises of Brazilian basketball, such as Deryk Ramos and Jefferson Campos. With a more balanced bench, allowing greater rotation during the games, the team won its third South American League,^[5] becoming the biggest winner of the competition, alongside Atenas de Córdoba (ARG). At NBB, however, the team returned to stay out of the decision, to be eliminated by Bauru in the semi-finals.

Continuing the renewal of the cast, the Uniceub/BRB/Brasilia hired two promising young pivots for the season 2016-17: Lucas Mariano, with games for the Brazilian National Team, and Fab Melo, with experience in the NBA.

Titles

FIBA Americas League

• Winners (1): 2008–09

Liga Sudamericana

• Winners (3): 2010, 2013, 2015
• Runners-up (1): 2012

Brazilian National League

• Winners (4): 2007, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
• Runners-up (2): 2008, 2008–09

Copa Brasil de Basquete

• Winners (2): 2003, 2004

Campeonato Brasiliense de Basquete

• Winners (11): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016

Roster

Brasília roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age 1.5 !G 7000300000000000000♠3 BRA ! Campos, Jefferson 7000186000000000000♠1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 7001250000000000000♠25 – (1991-02-09)9 February 1991 3.5 !F 7000500000000000000♠5 BRA ! Pilar 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001320000000000000♠32 – (1984-02-14)14 February 1984 1.5 !G 7000900000000000000♠9 BRA ! Ramos, Deryk 7000185000000000000♠1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 7001220000000000000♠22 – (1994-06-14)14 June 1994 3.5 !F 7001100000000000000♠10 BRA ! Oliveira, Alex 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001330000000000000♠33 – (1983-08-17)17 August 1983 1.5 !G 7001110000000000000♠11 BRA ! de Assis, Fúlvio 7000186000000000000♠1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 7001350000000000000♠35 – (1981-08-15)15 August 1981 3.5 !F 7001120000000000000♠12 BRA ! Giovannoni, Guilherme (C) 7000204000000000000♠2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001360000000000000♠36 – (1980-06-02)2 June 1980 5.0 !C 7001130000000000000♠13 BRA ! Melo, Fab 7000213000000000000♠2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 7002116000000000000♠116 kg (256 lb) 7001260000000000000♠26 – (1990-06-20)20 June 1990 1.5 !G 7001150000000000000♠15 BRA ! Phylippe, João 7000183000000000000♠1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 7001250000000000000♠25 – (1991-05-16)16 May 1991 4.5 !F/C 7001280000000000000♠28 BRA ! Mariano, Lucas 7000206999999999999♠2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 7001230000000000000♠23 – (1993-09-24)24 September 1993	Head coach Bruno Savignani Assistant coach(es) Paulo Santiago Brenno Blasciolli Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 2016-10-14

Former notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

• Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
• Played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one NBA game at any time.

Franchise accomplishments and awards

Franchise leaders

References

External links

• LNB – UniCEUB/BRB/Brasília