Venue: National University of Ireland, Galway

Date: 6-9 March 2003

Group Standings

	P	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
Group A
*University College Dublin	2	2	0	97	53	4
*Dublin City University	2	1	1	92	67	2
+University of Ulster Jordanstown	2	0	2	36	105	0
Group B
*NUI Galway	2	2	0	94	55	4
*Trinity College Dublin	2	1	1	93	94	2
+Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	2	0	2	59	97	0
Group C
*University College Cork	2	2	0	96	29	4
*Queens’s University Belfast	2	1	1	75	32	2
+University of Ulster Coleraine	2	0	2	16	126	0
Group D
*University of Limerick	2	2	0	123	53	4
*NUI Maynooth	2	1	1	79	83	2
+University of Ulster Magee	2	0	2	36	102	0

Note: * Qualify for Cup Quarter-Finals. + Qualify for Plate Semi-Finals.

Cup Final

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Cup Quarter-Finals
03.2003	University College Dublin	88	Queen’s University Belfast	14
03.2003	NUI Galway	52	NUI Maynooth	27
03.2003	Dublin City University	43	University College Cork	8
03.2003	Trinity College Dublin	34	University of Limerick	67
	Cup Semi-Finals
03.2003	NUI Galway	78	University College Dublin	63
03.2003	University of Limerick	52	Dublin City University	31
	Cup Final
03.2003	University of Limerick	71	NUI Galway	41

Plate Finals

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Plate Semi-Finals
03.2003	University of Ulster Jordanstown	69	University of Ulster Coleraine	28
03.2003	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	37	University of Ulster Magee	5
	Plate Final
03.2003	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	35	University of Ulster Jordanstown	29

Group Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Group A
03.2003	University of Ulster Jordanstown	21	Dublin City University	54
03.2003	Dublin City University	38	University College Dublin	46
03.2003	University College Dublin	51	University of Ulster Jordanstown	15
	Group B
03.2003	Trinity College Dublin	56	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	41
03.2003	NUI Galway	53	Trinity College Dublin	37
03.2003	NUI Galway	41	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	18
	Group C
03.2003	Queen’s University Belfast	19	University College Cork	26
03.2003	University College Cork	70	University of Ulster Coleraine	10
03.2003	University of Ulster Coleraine	6	Queen’s University Belfast	56
	Group D
03.2003	University of Limerick	60	University of Ulster Magee	16
03.2003	NUI Maynooth	37	University of Limerick	63
03.2003	NUI Maynooth	42	University of Ulster Magee	20

Report

University of Limerick won the 2002-03 Women’s Basketball Intervarsities, held from the 6th to the 9th March 2003, in the National University of Ireland, Galway. 12 Universities entered in total, divided into four Groups of three, with the top two in each group qualifying for the Cup Quarter-Finals.

University of Limerick won the Cup, with a 71-41 victory over hosts, NUI Galway, in the Final, after winning their two Group matches, and then defeating Trinity College Dublin in the Quarter-Finals and Dublin City University in the Semi-Finals. NUI galway had beaten NUI Maynooth in the Quarter-Finals and University College Dublin in the Semi-Finals.

The Consolation Plate competition, for the third place team in each group, was won by Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, who overcame University of Ulster, Jordanstown 35-29 in the Plate Final.

References

Internet Archive

[1] CUSAI | Wayback Machine (2005) Basketball Intervarsities 2002 / 2003 – info & Results [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20050116071417/http://www.cusai.ie/irishaffairs/20022003/iv/basketball.html#tresults [Accessed 24 May 2019]

Images

[2] Wikipedia (2020) CUSAI Logo [Internet] Available from: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/18/CUSAI-Logo-Only.jpg/220px-CUSAI-Logo-Only.jpg [Accessed 12 April 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ann Hanley, Trinity College Dublin

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