2017–18 Pro B season explained

The 2017–18 Pro B season was the 31st season of the Pro B, the top basketball league in France organised by the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB). Blois won its first league title.

Teams

Promotion and relegation

Orléans Loiret and SLUC Nancy entered the league after they relegated from the 2016–17 Pro A season.^{[1] [2]} UJAP Quimper 29 and Caen Basket Calvados were promoted from the 2016–17 NM1 season.^{[3] [4]}

Regular season

In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The table leader will promote to the Pro A while the numbers two until nine qualify for the promotion playoffs. The last two placed teams are relegated to the NM1.

Standings

Promotion playoffs

The seven highest ranked seeds in the regular season, excluding the league champions, qualify for the promotion playoffs. They are joined by the winner of the LNB Pro B Leaders Cup. All rounds of the promotion playoffs are played in a best-of-three format.

Pro B Leaders Cup

The winner of the LNB Pro B Leaders Cup automatically qualified for the promotion playoffs as the top seeded team. The quarter- and semi-finals in the Leaders Cup are played in two-legged format. The Final was played on 18 February in Disneyland Paris. Prior to the final eight teams, teams played in six groups of three teams to determine which teams would qualify for the quarter-finals.

Individual awards

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	PIR
October			22.5	[5]
November	Miralem Halilović (2)	Orléans Loiret	23.7	[6]
December	Jerrold Brooks		16.5	[7]
January		ADA Blois	22.0	[8]
February	Kammeon Hosley		21.3	[9]
March	align=left		align=left		17.0	[10]
April	align=left		align=left		19.0	[11]
May	align=left		align=left		21.5	[12]

See also

• 2017–18 Pro A season

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anthony GUILLE . Sluc Nancy, le grand chantier de la Pro B . Republicain-lorrain.fr . 2017-09-01.
2. Web site: Orléans Loiret Basket en ProB : Laurent Lhomme s'explique . Larep.fr . 2017-05-15 . 2017-09-01.
3. Web site: Le Caen basket Calvados officiellement en Pro B ! . Francebleu.fr . 2017-09-01.
4. Web site: Basket à Quimper. Après la victoire et la montée de l’Ujap, la fête ! . fr. Ouest-france.fr . 2017-09-01.
5. Web site: Miralem Halilovic MVP du mois d'octobre. bebasket.fr. 3 November 2017. 5 November 2017. French.
6. Web site: Le doublé pour Miralem Halilovic MVP du mois de novembre. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 9 December 2017.
7. Web site: Jerrold Brooks MVP du mois de décembre. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 31 December 2017. 16 June 2018. 6 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063718/http://www.bebasket.fr/championnat-pro-b/jerrold-brooks--mvp-du-mois-de-decembre.html. dead.
8. Web site: Tyren Johnson MVP du mois de janvier. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 4 February 2018.
9. Web site: Kammeon Holsey (Quimper) MVP du mois de février. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 5 March 2018.
10. Web site: Benoit Mbala, MVP du mois de mars. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 8 April 2018.
11. Web site: Jonathan Hoyaux (Saint-Chamond), MVP du mois d'avril. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 15 May 2018. 16 June 2018. 12 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140248/http://www.bebasket.fr/championnat-pro-b/jonathan-hoyaux--saint-chamond--mvp-du-mois-d-avril.html. dead.
12. Web site: Rakeem Buckels, MVP du mois de mai. bebasket. bebasket.fr. 28 May 2018.