The Rochester Skeeters were a Minnesota-based minor league hoops outfit that played two International Basketball Association (IBA) seasons at the Mayo Civic Center between 1998 and 2000. The IBA was a low-budget league that operated primarily in the Upper Midwest and Western Canada. The Skeeters left town after two seasons, moving to Salina, Kansas during the summer of 2000.
The Winnipeg Cyclone were a minor league basketball squad that played in the International Basketball Association between 1995 and 2001. The Cyclone replaced the similarly named Winnipeg Thunder on the local basketball scene. While the more ambitious Thunder played at 12,000 seat Winnipeg Arena, the lower-budget Cyclone used the Winnipeg Convention Centre whose 2,600-odd seats were still more than the Cyclone required. Notable Cyclones included former NBA dunk maestro Darryl Dawkins, who coached the team, and former Hoop Dreams subject Arthur Agee.
The Magic City Snowbears were a low-level minor league basketball team that played in the Upper Midwest-based International Basketball Association for five winters during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. “Magic City”, in this case, was Minot, North Dakota. The Snowbears ranged as far north as Winnipeg and Saskatchewan and east into Minnesota, Iowa, and Ohio for IBA competition.
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