CIU Basketball Team Finished 2018-2019 Season

Caucasus International University Basketball Team finished 2018-2019 season on May 5, 2019.

Five teams: Vera, Mega Basket, Arena Orbi, Abkhazia and Tbilisi participated in Georgian Basketball Championship A League together with CIU.

Victor Sanikidze, one of the distinguished Georgian basketball players in the recent history of Georgian basketball, had a managerial debut. He invited Serb trainer Boyan Salatich in order to form a team as well as three foreign legionnaires and a number of experienced Georgian basketball players to play alongside the university students and young basketball players. However, the beginning of the season was quite unpleasant – Rayan Aaron, an American legionnaire and team leader got injured during training a few days before the start of the tournament and was not able to play. Despite this fact, the team managed to win all the five games of the first round. Eventually, CIU won 8 games out of 10 and took the first place in the regular championship. It is a great success for recently renewed team.

CIU team defeated Arena-Orbi with the score 2:1 at the semi-final after the completion of the regular championship; however, the team lost with the score 1:3 with Vera at the playoff of Super League. The team was defeated by Cactus in a fierce battle with the score 2-3 at the qualifying round.

CIU Administration and students actively supported the basketball team throughout the season and equally shared their success and failure.

CIU Administration would like to express sincere gratitude towards each member of the club. They would like to wish success to the team and each basketball player.