2023 Coles Express NBL1 National Final Explainer

The 2023 Coles Express NBL1 National Finals will see the defending champions from last season’s tournament, the men’s Rockingham Flames and the women’s Warwick Senators, take on the conference champions from each conference.

All 12 teams will face off across Friday and Saturday to fight for a spot to make the women’s and men’s Championship Games on Sunday. 

The event will take place in Joondalup, WA at HBF Arena from August 18-20. All the games across Friday, Saturday and the Championship Games on Sunday will stream Live & Free via Kayo Freebies. 

Teams will accumulate points over Friday and Saturday’s games, with the top two teams at the end of Saturday’s matches to compete in the NBL1 National Final. 

The NBL1 National Final uses the points system used by the NBL for the NBL Blitz. Three points will be awarded for a win and an extra point awarded for each quarter won. If the quarter is tied, each team gets half a point. 

The schedule for Friday was determined by a random draw and it is as follows for the women’s and men’s games:

• 4pm MEN, Knox (South) vs West Adelaide (Central) and 4.30pm WOMEN, Norths (East) vs Northside (North)
• 6pm WOMEN, Cockburn (West) vs Bendigo (South) and 6.30pm WOMEN, Warwick (West) vs Norwood (Central)
• 8pm MEN, Rockingham (West) vs Ipswich (North) and 8.30pm MEN, Geraldton (West) vs Sutherland (East)

Saturday will see the highest rank vs lowest possible rank, without teams playing twice. Only two games will be played on Sunday – the Men’s NBL1 National Final and the Women’s NBL1 National Final.

The top two point scorers over Friday and Saturday will face off in the Championship Games. 

The full NBL1 National Final schedule is as follows:*

• 4pm MEN, Knox (South) vs West Adelaide (Central) and 4.30pm WOMEN, Norths (East) vs Northside (North)
• 6pm WOMEN, Cockburn (West) vs Bendigo (South) and 6.30pm WOMEN, Warwick (West) vs Norwood (Central)
• 8pm MEN, Rockingham (West) vs Ipswich (North) and 8.30pm MEN, Geraldton (West) vs Sutherland (East)

• 2.30pm Women / 4.30pm Men / 6.30pm Men
• 2pm Women / 4pm Women / 6pm Men

• 11am Women's Championship Game
• 1.30pm Men's Championship Game

All times in AWST*

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