Farmland History and Records

Past Champions

Season	Tournament Champion	Regular Season Champion
2008-2009	Blair	Scribner-Snyder
2009-2010	North Bend	SS/NB tie
2010-2011	Oakland	Oakland
2011-2012	Howells	Dodge/NB tie

Team Records - Regular Season

Best regular season record	7-1 (.875)	Oakland	2011
Highest scoring average	70.3	Blair	2009
Best defensive average	46.7	North Bend	2012
Highest victory margin	14.6	Oakland	2011
Winning streak (inc. playoffs)	10	Oakland	2011-2012

Team Records - Single game

Most points	92	Scribner-Snyder v. Dodge	Jan. 18, 2009
Largest victory margin	42	Scribner-Snyder v. Dodge	Jan. 18, 2009
Most points combined	173	North Bend 87, Blair 86 (2 OT)	Dec. 14, 2008
Most overtimes	2	North Bend vs. Blair	Dec. 14, 2008

Individual Records

Scoring aveage - season	31.7	Scott Beck, Scribner-Snyder	2009
Points - single game	42	Scott Beck, Scribner-Snyder	Jan. 18, 2009 v. Dodge

League History

All-time team records

team	years	regular season	playoffs	all
Blair	1	4-2	2-0	6-2
Oakland	2	9-5	2-0	11-5
Scribner	2	8-2	1-2	9-4
North Bend	4	16-8	1-3	17-11
West Point	2	9-5	2-2	12-7
Howells	1	2-4	2-0	4-4
Pender	1	2-4	0-0	2-4
Dodge	4	6-18	0-2	6-20
Bancroft	2	3-11	0-1	3-12

Current FBL teams in bold

The Farmland Basketball League formed in the fall of 2008, with four charter members: North Bend, Dodge, Scribner-Snyder and Blair. An initial meeting was held in Scribner to draw up the rules of the league. The league managers met again on Nov. 7, 2008, in North Bend to ratify the constitution that was drawn up by Nathan Arneal based on the previous meeting in Scribner. The constitution was approved and signed by Paul Poppe of Scribner, Nathan Arneal of North Bend, Russ Meyer of Dodge and Luke Beerbohm of Blair.

That first season, Scribner-Snyder, led by league MVP Scott Beck, beat Blair in the final regular season game to claim the regular season title and the top seed in the tournament. Those same two teams met in the tournament finals, where this time Blair came out on top.

Blair dropped out shortly before the 2009-2010 season, and a replacement could not be found in time, so the remaining three teams played a round-robin season. North Bend and Scribner-Snyder split their regular season series, with each team beating the other team by three points on the opponent's home court. With the point differential being the same, a coin flip was used to decide that North Bend would host the championship game. In the rubber match, North Bend beat Scribner-Snyder to claim the second golden tractor.

Scribner-Snyder dropped out right before the 2010-2011 season, but three teams were added for the third season, with West Point, Oakland and Bancroft joining to expand the league to five teams. The schedule was expanded to an 8-game regular season with a four-team playoffs. After dropping an early game to West Point, Oakland steamrolled through its schedule to become the first team to win both the regular season and tournament championships outright in the same season.

Pender and Howells joined the Farmland for the 2011-2012 season, bringing the league up to seven teams. Dodge completed a worst-to-first run that year. After winning only one game in the previous three years, the Gamecocks compiled a 5-1 record to tie North Bend for the regular season title. However, both Dodge and North Bend were upset in the first round of the playoffs and No. 4 seed Howells and No. 3 West Point met in the championship game. Howells, who barely made the playoffs by winning a three-way tiebreaker for fourth place, became the first four seed in FBL history to win a playoff game, then they did it again by knocking off West Point in a championship thriller, 76-75.