Category: Women’s Basketball League

Washington Metros Women's Basketball League

Washington Metros

November 3, 2012

Not to be confused with a late 70’s men’s minor league team of the same name, these Metros were a doomed expansion entry in the Women’s Professional Basketball League that lasted only 10 games in November and December of 1979. All evidence suggests the team never had actual owners and its players went unpaid during the team’s two months of activity. The beleaguered club compiled a record of 3-7, the league euthanized the Metros franchise a week before Christmas in December 1979.

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1980-81 New Orleans Pride program from the Women's Basketball League

New Orleans Pride

July 29, 2012

The New Orleans Pride were an early women’s professional basketball team that played two seasons between 1979 and 1981. The Pride joined the Women’s Professional Basketball League as an expansion franchise in May 1979, just weeks after the NBA’s New Orleans Jazz moved away to Utah. Like the Jazz, the Pride played their home games in the enormous Louisiana Superdome. Butch Van Breda Kolff, a former Jazz head coach, coached the Pride.

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1979-80 Iowa Cornets team photo on the cover of a Cornets program from the Women's Basketball League

Iowa Cornets

April 21, 2012

They can rightfully claim to be the first women’s professional basketball team ever formed in the United States.  They travelled the small cities of Iowa and beyond in a custom 1964 Greyhound bus known as “The Corn Dog”.  Team members co-starred with Pistol Pete Maravich in a box-office flop from the auteur who brought you UFO: Target Earth and Bloodbath in Psychotown.  And they were pretty good too.  During their short two-year history, the Iowa Cornets appeared in two championship series and produced one of the earliest stars of the women’s game.

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1984 Dallas Diamonds program from the Women's American Basketball Association

Dallas Diamonds

April 2, 2012

Women’s Professional Basketball League (1979-1981) Women’s American Basketball Association (1984) Born: 1979 – WPBL expansion franchise Folded: Postseason 1981 Revived: 1984 – WABA founding franchise

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Milwaukee Does Women's Basketball League

Milwaukee Does

February 26, 2012

The Milwaukee Does were a franchise in the pioneering Women’s Professional Basketball League. The Does are notable for hosting the first women’s professional basketball game in American history at Milwaukee Arena on December 9th, 1978. The club wobbled through two seasons before folding in 1980.

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