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The Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) announced the winners of the 2025 CEBL Awards and the All-CEBL Teams on Thursday. The Vancouver Bandits took home four awards, including forward Mitch Creek, who earned top honours as Most Valuable Player.
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The Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) matchups are set for 2025 Championship Weekend (CW25) in Winnipeg, MB, as the Scarborough Shooting Stars and Calgary Surge punched their tickets to the Conference Finals this afternoon with wins in the CEBL’s Eastern and Western Conference Semifinals.
The last of this year’s four CEBL conference finalists was confirmed once the dust settled at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday.
In the end, the Scarborough Shooting Stars were just too much. During the early stages of Saturday’s Eastern Conference Semifinal, the short-handed Ottawa BlackJacks scratched and clawed and put a jolt into the favoured Shooting Stars, threatening an upset victory.
The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the West get ready to face off at Langley Events Centre on Saturday, with a trip to the Western Conference Final at Championship Weekend — and a matchup against the host Winnipeg Sea Bears — on the line.
The East’s second seed will be without their top scorer, Sixth Man of the Year candidate and home court when they host the third-seeded Scarborough Shooting Stars in the Eastern Conference Semifinal on Saturday.
Evan Gilyard II was supposedly brought in as a patchwork solution for Jameer Nelson Jr.’s absence for the Calgary Surge during NBA Summer League. But when Nelson Jr. finished what Gilyard II started during Target Score Time in Thursday night’s 103-95 West Play-In over the Edmonton Stingers, it was clear that the Surge had put together the makings of a vaunted pairing for a post-season run.
Scarborough’s fearsome twosome isn’t going away just yet. Terquavion Smith and Donovan Williams led the Shooting Stars to a 92-86 win over the Montreal Alliance in the Eastern Conference Play-In Game on Thursday at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.
One of the biggest rivalries in the CEBL gets set to pen its latest chapter on Thursday when the Calgary Surge host the Edmonton Stingers for the Western Conference’s Play-In game.
The post-season begins with the Eastern Conference Play-In game as the Scarborough Shooting Stars host the Montreal Alliance at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on Thursday at 7 p.m. ET.
Most Valuable Player finalists Mitch Creek of the Vancouver Bandits and Sean East II of the Edmonton Stingers headline the list of nominees revealed across six player award categories.
The Calgary Surge made sure to end their regular season on a high note, picking up a 94-76 win over the defending champion Niagara River Lions on Sunday night.
Saskatchewan Rattlers’ big man Jaden Bediako made CEBL history on Sunday (Aug. 10) in a 96-85 victory over the Brampton Honey Badgers at SaskTel Centre.
With Winnipeg and Edmonton both locked into their playoff spots, the Stingers beat the Sea Bears 97-77 in both teams’ regular-season finale on Sunday at the Edmonton Expo Centre.
The Bandits set a CEBL scoring record since the introduction of Target Time, and the teams combined for the second-highest scoring CEBL game ever when Vancouver downed Ottawa 130-112.
In a preview of Thursday’s Eastern Conference Play-In game, several stars rested, while role players saw extended action on Sunday afternoon. The Scarborough Shooting Stars dropped a 92-80 decision at home against the Montreal Alliance, and Thursday’s rematch will be at the same venue (Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre).
