2017–18 Pro B season
French basketball league season
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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.
| 2017–18 Pro B season | ||||||||||
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| Season | 2017–18 | |||||||||
| Teams | 18 | |||||||||
| Regular season | ||||||||||
| Season MVP |  Tyren Johnson | |||||||||
| Promoted | Blois Fos Provence | |||||||||
| Relegated | Le Havre Étoile Charleville-Mézières | |||||||||
| Finals | ||||||||||
| Champions | Blois (1st title) | |||||||||
| Statistical leaders | ||||||||||
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← 2016–17 2018–19 → | ||||||||||
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
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADA Blois 41 (C, P) | 34 | 27 | 7 | Promotion to Pro A |
| 2 | Chorale Roanne | 34 | 26 | 8 | Qualification for promotion playoffs |
| 3 | Orléans Loiret | 34 | 25 | 9 | |
| 4 | Fos Provence (O, P) | 34 | 24 | 10 | |
| 5 | Lille Métropole | 34 | 23 | 11 | |
| 6 | Saint-Chamond | 34 | 22 | 12 | |
| 7 | SLUC Nancy | 34 | 19 | 15 | |
| 8 | Rouen Métropole | 34 | 17 | 17 | |
| 9 | ALM Évreux | 34 | 16 | 18 | |
| 10 | Denain Voltaire[a] | 34 | 16 | 18 | Qualification for promotion playoffs |
| 11 | AMSB | 34 | 15 | 19 | |
| 12 | JA Vichy-Clermont Métropole | 34 | 14 | 20 | |
| 13 | Hermine Nantes | 34 | 12 | 22 | |
| 14 | Caen Calvados | 34 | 12 | 22 | |
| 15 | UJAP Quimper 29 | 34 | 11 | 23 | |
| 16 | Poitiers 86 | 34 | 11 | 23 | |
| 17 | UJAP Quimper 29 | 34 | 11 | 23 | Relegation to NM1 |
| 18 | STB Le Havre | 34 | 10 | 24 |
- Denain Voltaire automatically qualified for the playoffs as winners of the Leaders Cup.
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.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||
2 Chorale Roanne | 68 | 74 | ||||||||||||||
| Denain Voltaire | 60 | 54 | ||||||||||||||
2 Chorale Roanne | 83 | 52 | 71 | |||||||||||||
5 Lille Métropole | 36 | 77 | 55 | |||||||||||||
5 Lille Métropole | 81 | 80 | ||||||||||||||
6 Saint-Chamond | 65 | 56 | ||||||||||||||
2 Chorale Roanne | 68 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
4 Fos Provence | 72 | 76 | ||||||||||||||
3 Orléans | 112 | 76 | 85 | |||||||||||||
8 Rouen Métropole | 110 | 77 | 86 | |||||||||||||
8 Rouen Métropole | 75 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
4 Fos Provence | 79 | 92 | ||||||||||||||
4 Fos | 77 | 73 | ||||||||||||||
7 SLUC Nancy | 62 | 60 | ||||||||||||||
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.
| Quarterfinals 24–31 October | Semifinals 14 November–5 December | Final 18 February | ||||||||||||||
| SLUC Nancy | 64 | 64 | 128 | |||||||||||||
| Denain Voltaire | 74 | 66 | 140 | |||||||||||||
| Denain Voltaire | 65 | 59 | 124 | |||||||||||||
| STB Le Havre | 65 | 91 | 156 | |||||||||||||
| STB Le Havre | 81 | 64 | 145 | |||||||||||||
| Fos Provence | 73 | 69 | 142 | |||||||||||||
| Denain Voltaire (ot) | 98 | |||||||||||||||
| Orléans Loiret | 87 | |||||||||||||||
| ALM Évreux | 73 | 93 | 166 | |||||||||||||
| Orléans Loiret | 82 | 96 | 178 | |||||||||||||
| Orléans Loiret | 68 | 92 | 160 | |||||||||||||
| Hermine Nantes | 59 | 78 | 137 | |||||||||||||
| ADA Blois 41 | 85 | 71 | 156 | |||||||||||||
| Hermine Nantes | 87 | 72 | 159 | |||||||||||||
Individual awards
MVP of the Month
| Month | Player | Team | PIR | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October |  Miralem Halilović | Orléans Loiret | 22.5 | [5] |
| November | Miralem Halilović (2) | Orléans Loiret | 23.7 | [6] |
| December |  Jerrold Brooks | ADA Blois | 16.5 | [7] |
| January | Tyren Johnson | ADA Blois | 22.0 | [8] |
| February | Kammeon Hosley | UJAP Quimper 29 | 21.3 | [9] |
| March |  Benoit Mbala | Chorale Roanne | 17.0 | [10] |
| April |  Jonathan Hoyaux | Saint-Chamond | 19.0 | [11] |
| May | Rakeem Buckels | Lille Métropole | 21.5 | [12] |