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USC Heidelberg

Professional basketball team in Heidelberg, Germany

USC Heidelberg, for sponsorship reasons named MLP Academics Heidelberg, is a professional basketball club from Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The team has won nine German championships in its history, the last being in 1977.

The club's men's senior team currently plays in the ProA, the second division, following their relegation from the Basketball Bundesliga at the end of the 2025–26 season, where they spent five seasons. The team was dominant in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in the West German Basketball League, winning a total of 9 German championships (1957–1962, 1966, 1973, 1977). In the 2020–21 season, Heidelberg won its first-ever ProA championship and gained promotion to the first level Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). Heidelberg finished the 2021–22 Basketball Bundesliga season with 11 wins and 23 losses in 15th place out of 18, after surprisingly winning their first three Bundesliga games. With that cushion, the underdog was always able to stay out of the relegation spots despite the losing streak that followed. Despite the success in 2021–22, Heidelberg changed its head coach for the 2022/23 season and brought in six new players. Branislav Ignjatovic had served as head coach for eight years. In 2022, the Finish head coach Joonas Iisalo then took over.

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