BC Odessa is a Ukrainian professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 club based in Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

 that competes in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague (UBSL). It is one of the most distinguished basketball clubs in the country and has won the UBSL championship 4 times. It was founded in 1992 under the name BIPA-Moda after its sponsor company. Following the death of its 1st president Arkadiy Tabachnyk in 1999, the club became municipal and, hence, changed its name to MBC Odessa. In 2006, the club turned private again after its purchase by the current president Oleh Bychkov, and its name was changed to the present BC Odessa.

Current roster

Guards Buchanan, Gary

Gary Buchanan

Gary Buchanan is a basketball player, who played for Villanova University before starting a professional career. His jersey number was 22. Buchanan is from St. Louis, Missouri. In high school he went to St. Thomas More. He is around 6'3 and weighs 205. He is a guard. , Buchanan played for BC...

 Dobrykov, Ihor Kryvych, Rostyslav Navickas, Gediminas

Forwards DeGroat, John Fraseniuk, Yuriy Hudkov, Oleksandr Kuznetsov, Hennadiy Shvets, Artem

Centers

Center (basketball)

The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

Balashov, Stanislav

Most famous players

Vadym Pudzyrey Vitaliy Usenko Ihor Kharchenko Ihor Molchanov Leonid Yaylo Oleksandr Okunskiy Thomas Pochesas Eddy Barlow Hennadiy Kuznetsov Aleksey Karvanen Oleh Yushkin Stanislav Balashov Oleksiy Poltorackiy Vadym Matyukevych Otis Hill

Otis Hill

Otis Hill , the oldest of 14 siblings, is a basketball player playing as a power forward. He is a graduate of Pleasantville High School in NY, played basketball there and won many awards. At Pleasantville High School, Otis was also a standout in football and a member of the 1991 undefeated season...

 Wayne Wallace John DeGroat Jerel Blassingame

Jerel Blassingame

Jerel Blassingame is an American professional basketball player. He is 1.77m in height and plays at point guard.-Amateur career:...

 Larry Turner

Larry Turner (basketball)

Larry Turner is a basketball player from Tennessee State. He is a 6'11" center and was formerly signed by the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent. From mid- to late 2010, he was playing with BC Odessa in the Ukrainian Basketball Super League.-References:...

 Jamison Brewer

Jamison Brewer

Jamison Rudy van Brewer is an American professional basketball player in the point guard position...

Head Coaches

Vitaliy Lebedyntsev: 1992-1996, 1998-2001, 2008-2010 Yuriy Selikhov: 1996-1998 Valiantsin Varonin Oleh Yushkin: 2010-

Honors

• Ukrainian Basketball Super League
  Ukrainian Basketball Super League
  The Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague is the top professional basketball league in Ukraine.-2010–2011 Teams:* Azovmash Mariupol* BC Kyiv* Khimik Yuzhny* MBС Mykolaiv* BC Donetsk* BC Budivelnik* BC Halychyna* BC Hoverla* BC Dnipro-Azot...
  
  : 4 (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)
• Ukrainian Basketball Cup: 2 (1993, 2001)
• NEBL Challenge Cup: 1 (2001) (the only Ukrainian team to win a Eurocup)