Student Basketball Club

The Estudiantes de Baloncesto Club, known for sponsorship reasons as Movistar Estudiantes, and colloquially Estudiantes or "Estudiantes ", is a Spanish basketball club founded in 1948 with headquarters in the city of Madrid, which competes in the League LEB oro. It was, until 2021, together with Club Joventut Badalona and Real Madrid, the only Spanish club that had participated in all editions of the highest category of Spanish basketball, from its creation as the Spanish League until its replacement by the ACB League; and has also participated in the founding of the Association of Basketball Clubs.

Estudiantes have won several national titles and have participated twenty-three times in European competitions, in which they have reached the semifinals of the Euroleague, Cup Winners' Cup, Korac Cup, ULEB Cup or FIBA Cup. Famous for having one of the academies of most prolific youth players in Spanish basketball, the student club has trained a remarkable number of players and coaches who have been world champions, Olympic medalists, players in the NBA or the Spanish team.

History and main features

Estudiantes was founded in April 1948. In the 1947-48 academic year, a group of students from the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute registered a team with the name "Ramiro in the Castilian Basketball Federation from Maeztu" in the Third Division of Castilla, and a year later, in the 1948-49 academic year, the "Estudiantes" was formally established, under the auspices and decisive support of Antonio Magariños, professor of Latin and Head of Studies at the Instituto, who was the club's first president.

Playing on the courts of said Institute, with a large number of teams of all categories from alevins to juniors, the club's youth system has produced many great players and coaches throughout its history. Spanish basketball. Among the players we can mention Fernando Martín, Alberto Herreros, Carlos Jiménez, Alfonso Reyes, Iñaki de Miguel, Rodrigo de la Fuente, Felipe Reyes, Pedro Robles, Sergio Rodríguez, Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Aíto García Reneses, Jesús Codina, José Ramón Ramos, Vicente Ramos, Juan Antonio Martínez Arroyo, Gonzalo Martínez, José Miguel Antúnez, Gonzalo Sagi-Vela, Víctor Escorial, Miguel Ángel Estrada, Gregorio Estrada, Carlos Suárez, José Luis Sagi-Vela, Vicente Gil, Jaime Fernández, Javier Beirán, Juancho Hernangómez, Darío Brizuela or Nacho Azofra.^{[citation required]} Among the coaches we can mention José Vicente Hernández (better known as Pepu Hernández) in addition to the aforementioned Antonio Diaz-Miguel and Aito Garcia Reneses. These three coaches were coaches of the Spanish basketball team under whose direction three of their greatest international achievements were achieved (a World Championship and two silver medals in the Olympics).

In the 1947/48 season, Estudiantes was runner-up in the Third Division of Castilla and promoted to the Second category. In the 1948/49 season it was promoted from Second to First and in 1949/50 it reached the highest category existing at that time. The first Spanish Basketball League, organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation, was played in 1957 with six teams: Aismalibar, FC Barcelona, Estudiantes, Juventud de Badalona, Orillo Verde de Sabadell and Real Madrid. Real Madrid and Estudiantes participated as first and second in the Castilla Championship.

Estudiantes has been runner-up in the Spanish League four times and Cup winner three times. At the international level, since 1973 it has participated in European competitions in twenty-four seasons playing the Euroleague, the Cup Winners' Cup, the Korac Cup, the Saporta Cup, the ULEB Cup, and the FIBA Cup. Estudiantes played the final four of the Euroleague in Istanbul in 1992 and was runner-up in the Korac Cup in 1999. They also played the final four of the FIBA Cup, in 2007.

Club Estudiantes has also been one of only two Spanish basketball clubs with teams in the two highest national competitions for men and women for several seasons. Estudiantes was the first club to have a team in the ACB league and in the first women's division at the same time. Already in the 2008/09 season it was the only Spanish basketball club with that feature. The women's team has existed since 1990. It has a youth academy of more than 400 players. The women's Estudiantes hold the record for attendance at a women's basketball game in Spain with 13,472 attendees, in 2019.

Dementia in a league match.

It is also worth noting its imaginative fans, known as "La Dementia", who constantly cheer on their team and who use humor and irony as a way of viewing basketball. La Dementia has even received official recognition. The student fans to a large extent consider viable the philosophy of maintaining Estudiantes as a "schoolyard" team, the origin of the club, even within a basketball increasingly professionalized. The fact that some or many of the "insane" go dressed as Arabs has little to do with their solidarity with the Palestinian movement: it is more related to the historical moment in which the name Dementia was successfully popularized for the until then "swollen" plainly, in the first years of Spanish democracy (assimilation with Muslim characters, such as Khomeini, was highly provocative in a country that had just overcome a national-Catholic dictatorship; in addition to being easier to imitate them with a disguise than other regulars characters from Dementia, like Juana la Loca). The years were 1975 and 1976, and several "clandestine political groups" functioned at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute, which at a given moment merged under the name of Dementia, inventing cries ('dementia, dementia, the mother of ciencia") and carrying out pranks such as going to block traffic in the "plaza de los delfines" at the beginning of the Christmas holidays. Although the origin of Dementia is not in basketball, since they had preferential access to the Student games given their status as students at the Institute, they transferred their surreal political claims there. animation known as "La Tapqué" who, at least since 1957, invented songs that were later reproduced at matches, highlighting the one dedicated to Garibaldi, a skeleton named after the Italian soldier who would become one of the icons of the student fans: with the rise of La Demencia, "The Cla" he would end up joining it. Other animation groups such as "La Peña Rafa", "Impresentables" and "Los Padrinos", of more recent creation.

In the 2011/2012 season, the average attendance of spectators at the Palacio de los Deportes of the AC of Madrid during the regular season was 10,412 people. This data placed Estudiantes as the most followed team on the pitch in the entire ACB.

Estudiantes is characterized, by its origin and history, by enthusiasm, passion for basketball, and a certain romanticism, putting good play above results on many occasions. It is also characterized by an enthusiastic and amateur management of the club, which has brought sweet victories, also certain shadows and a rather meager number of trophies. The intense rivalry with Real Madrid is proverbial, which explains the existing twinning with the Atlético de Madrid fans and the periodic rumors about the acquisition by the rojiblancos of the student club to try to clean it up financially.

Estudiantes (the "Estudiantes group") is organized as follows: on one side is the Sociedad Anónima Deportiva (S.A.D.) created in 1991 that deals with the team that competes in the ACB League; on the other, the Club itself (the civil society founded in 1948), which deals with the quarry; thirdly, the Foundation, which manages activities with children with different abilities -being recognized for its social role, and acquiring notorious media relevance as a result of the premiere of the award-winning film Campeones-, as well as other administrative concessions; and finally Sport Media & Sponsoring, a business line specialized in sports marketing and in the commercialization of advertising spaces. Since 2005 (the last time being 2020) capital increases have been carried out, putting shares up for sale of the Sports Public Limited Company that supports the club's ACB league team for 6 euros each (nominal value), with the aim of financing the club and encouraging the participation of the greatest number of fans in the club's property.

Mythical moments

1947, foundation

The co-founding players of Estudiantes were the following: Luis Martínez Arroyo (the first of one of the most important sagas in collegiate history), Bermúdez, Varela, Rafael Laborde, José Luis Cela (Camilo José Cela's brother), Abad, Bitteti, Valle or Morejón and Jareño among others.

Between 1948 and 1960

• 1948: A group of students at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute is part of the championship in Madrid, in the Third Division. The team is a champion and comes to Second Division next season.
• 1954-55 and 1955-56. The beginnings of the rivalry with Real Madrid: Students Campeón de Castilla, in the two seasons, against Real Madrid. In the season 55-56 Students were also third in the Spanish Championship, the only existing championship at the national level.
• 1957: Participate in the first national league, with five other teams.

1960-70s

• 1962-63: Cup Champion, for the first time. He won the final to Real Madrid for 94-90. It was also that year under Champion of League, after Real Madrid. In the previous season 61-62, Students had already been a Copa champion (losing the final to Real Madrid for 80-66, in Barcelona) and third in the League (after Real Madrid and Youth).
• 1963-64: Consolation finish for the third place of the Cup, played in Lugo. Result Students 114 - 62 R. Madrid. It's the greatest victory over the big rival. They played among others, Juan Antonio Martínez Arroyo, Aíto García Reneses, José Luis Sagi-Vela.
• March 19, 1967: Last league match 1966-67. Victory over Real Madrid by 77-75, with the mythical Emilio Segura basket, which came out in the last seconds. Students were composed by Juan Antonio Martínez Arroyo, Vicente Ramos, Gonzalo Sagi-Vela, Javier Codina, Romero, Pablo Bergia, Pedro Cifré, García and, of course, Emilio Segura. Coach was Ignacio Pinedo. The student victory gave the League to the then Badalona Youth. It was the first league that won the Joventut and Students finished fifth. The following year, in Badalona, the Joventut offered the Students a plaque to deportivity and for two minutes the Badalonian public was applauding on foot. During the sixties and seventies Real Madrid won 16 leagues in a row, from the 1959-60 season to the 76/77, except that of 66-67. Currently a group of student hobby is called "Peña Emilio Segura" in memory of the gesta starring the student player, who is an honorary partner of this rock.
• March 9, 1969: In the match against the San Josep de Badalona, with the victory of Students for 116 to 73, José Luis Sagi-Vela established the absolute score of an individual student player, by obtaining 50 points. Fifteen years later the brand would be equaled by David Russell.

1970-80s

• It is a few years with great and inspiring players, with the club and the hobby settled in the Magariños Pavilion, opened in 1971, and where the Dementia begins to be more organized. They play Juan Antonio and Fernando Martínez Arroyo, Andrés Soriano More (the medical day of the club), Gonzalo, José Luis and Alfonso Sagi-Vela, "Pello" Cambronero, José Luis and Juan Manuel Beltrán, Olaizola, Mariano Bartivas, Pablo Bergia, Ignacio Pinedo (son), Charly López Rodríguez. It's the time when you start playing the first paid American in Students, Ron Taylor. The coaches were Ignacio Pinedo, for almost the entire decade, and then Chus Codina, Fernando Bermúdez, as the former was stopped, and José Ramón Ramos. Among the great achievements, two sub-campeonates of Copa, 1973 and 1975; and the first participations in European competitions, in particular the Recopa.
• 1973: Students arrive at the end of the Cup called at that time of the General, disputed in Valencia, in which he lost against Real Madrid for 123-79.
• 1973-1974: Students contest for the first time official European competition, the Recopa, having been champions of the National Cup and the champion of this, the Real Madrid, contest the European Cup. The school debuted with the Portuguese Benfica in the second round. After deleting the Mounier Wels in the eighth finals, and passing as seconds in the room line (in which the Ramiro team shared group with the Spartak of Brno, which finished first with the Steaua of Bucharest) Students fell in semifinals before the Yugoslav Red Star, to the last champion.
• 1975: Students arrive at the end of the Copa del Generalísimo, in Jerez, where they lose to Real Madrid by 114-85.
• 1975-76: Students redisput the Recoup for the same reasons as the year of the debut. In the eighth finals he removed the Honka Playboys. One of the great epic moments of the student's history came in the final room line, when the first group remained, despite the fact that he was also the great favourite of the competition, the Milan Cinzano. In the one-way game the Italians beat the Students for 107-82. On the return in the Magariños, the schoolboys beat the beating back 106-72, ensuring the first position of the group and the easiest rival at the crossing of semifinals, the ASPO Tours. But the French would remove a trusted student, and the champion would end up being the Milan Cinzano.
• 1978: Susto with the party for the stay in First Division (temporada 77/78) with the Mataró resolved with a clear 113-90.

1980-90s

• 1980-81 league champions, for the third time. A dream team meets in which they played in the quinteto headline: Fernando Martín (a junior with 19 years, in his second season in the senior team), Vicente Gil, Alfonso del Corral, Charly López Rodríguez and Slab Jones. They also played Sánchez Burgues, Gibson, JL Beltrán, Chinche Lafuente, De Dios. The coach was Jesus Codina. The team played in a very consistent way and usually played more than 100 points per game. Only the Barcelona resisted the Palau, remaining league champion that year. A curious and indicative result of the potential of the team is that the 9/11/1980 employs 94 in the Sports City of Real Madrid, against the great rival in Madrid. Fernando Martin was selected for the Spanish team for the first time that season.
• 1981-1982: most of the key players in the previous season are booked by clubs with greater economic potential and direct rivals. For example, Fernando Martín was signed by R. Madrid in the summer of 1981. After 11 years playing in different teams from Catalonia, return to the Victor Escorial club.
• 1983-1984. Beginning of the ACB era. Eliminated by the stay in Primera Division with the Peñas Recreativas de Huesca to three games saved in extremis.
• 1984-85 A more competitive team is being rebuilt. David Russell is here and Vincent Gil is back. That same season, David Russell tied with José Luis Sagi-Vela the maximum score of an individual student player, when he scored 50 points in the match that confronted Students against the Álava Box (Baskonia), on October 20, 1984 (Alava Case 107- Students 89).
• 10-10-1984. Season 1984/85. John Pinone's debut party, (which came to replace Craig McCormick) against Real Madrid, in the Pavilion of the latter. Outcome 98-86. Pavilion full to overflow, with the usual heavily charged atmosphere of that pavilion on those occasions. Just got off the plane, with that team that featured only Vicente Gil and David Russell, John Pinone performed a proud performance by sending the bank for faults to Fernando Martin, Romay and Robinson, although it was not enough to get the student victory. John Pinone thus opened a mythical era in Students, being one of his players icon for years.
• 1985-86: Champion of the Prince of Asturias Cup to the Granollers. This tournament gave the right to participate in European competitions. In the 1984-85 seasons, 85-86, 86-87 Students arrive in final quarters in the league. David Russell won the first ACB math contest in Don Benito (Badajoz). The coach was Paco Garrido and the team played Vicente Gil, Carlos Montes, David Russell, John Pinone, Javier García Coll, Pedro Rodríguez, Ion Imanol Rementería, Héctor Perotas, Chinche Lafuente and E.Moreno (juvenil).
• 28/3/1987: Final quarters league 1986-1987, second play-off match against the R. Madrid. The Antonio Magariños Pavilion, crowded, with people in the corridors and stairs. Results, after three extensions: Students 121-115 R. Madrid. This game remains in 2006 the play off game of the ACB history with maximum joint score (236 points) and also with an extraordinary single score brand of David Russell (43 points), which played fabulously. Great game of Pinone too. That game is remembered by many students fans with a lot of affection, for how the players demonstrated the love of the colors of their team. Since smoking was still allowed at that time in that kind of place, at the end of the game, after the three extensions, it was hard to see the players on the smoke track there. Students in that season were: Vicente Gil, Carlos Montes, David Russell, John Pinone, Javier García Coll, Pedro Rodríguez, Ion Imanol Rementería, Abel Amón, Alberto Sanz and José Miguel Antúnez. Coach was Paco Garrido. That year Students finally finished fifth in the league.

1990-2000 decade

• 1990-91: Achievements in League and Cup. Semifinalist in the League, being third when being eliminated by the then Barcelona champion, and Cup subfield, also before the FC Barcelona for 67-65. Juan Antonio Orenga was named Best Player of the Cup Final.
• 1992: After the previous good season, the team continues to grow and in that year a series of historical results arrive. That year they played Pablo Martínez, Juan Aísa, Juan Antonio Orenga, Ricky Winslow, Alberto Herreros, John Pinone, Nacho Azofra, Pedro Fernández, Alfonso Reyes, J.A. Aguilar and César Arranz. The coach was Miguel Ángel Martín Fernández, who had José Vicente Hernández, Pepu as assistant.
  • On the one hand, Students proclaimed themselves Champion of Cup, for the second time in their history, before the CAI Zaragoza, for 61-56, in Granada. John Pinone was named Best Tournament Player. In that end, Nacho Azofra came out from the bench, because he was injured, and Ricky Winslow made a splendid final mate. In the final quarters of the Cup, Students eliminated Real Madrid with a triple of Juan Aísa in the last second. In semifinals, he won the Joventut in an extraordinary match of Pablo Martínez.
  • As for the league, in the semifinals, Students were eliminated by the Joventut for 3-2. Students won the first match in Badalona, and in the second one lost in the extension, which was reached after failing Students two of three free shots with time already to zero. The Joventut later proclaimed himself a league champion.
  • But the year 92 is above all remembered by the largest European Student milestone. In the European League, Students won in the intermediate rounds, for example, the Aris of Thessaloniki of Nikos Galis, with a dream game. In his qualifying group Students stayed second, ahead of teams of the size of Philips Milan and the Partizan de Belgrade. In quarters of the finals, Students played with the Maccabi the access to the Final Four. Maccabi won in Tel Aviv and Students forced the third match by winning in Madrid the second. The third match was played with full score, winning at the Goya Sports Palace in Madrid with victory for 3 points, with a Doron Jamchi slip followed by Winslow's mate out of time. The Dementia displayed a spectacular banner in Spanish and Hebrew with reference to the sword of Allah and the hand of Elijah (With Allah's sword we will cut Elliah's hand - With the sword of Allah we will cut off the hand of Elijah. Remember that "Elias' hand was the name of the Maccabeo pavilion before playing at the current Nokia Arena" In Istanbul, students disputed the semi-final with the Joventut (mandatory confrontation at the time when there were two teams from the same country at the Final Four). As curiosities of that Euroliga, the champion was the Partizan of Belgrade, trained by Obradovic and where Aleksandar Djordjevic played, who won the end to the Joventut with a triple of this player on the horn. The Partizan had to play the entire Euroliga outside of Yugoslavia and chose as a Fuenlabrada domicile. They won all the home matches except one: with Students.
• 1992-93: The greatest achievement is to reach semifinals being eliminated by 3-2 by the Real Madrid of Arvydas Sabonis, who was champion. The student team of those seasons played very well and very compenetrado, with race and class, with good bases (Nacho Azofra, Pablo Martínez) excellent shooters (Herreros and Cvjeticanin) and inside: Pinone, Vecina, Orenga and Alfonso Reyes Cabanas. They also completed the Ricky Winslow and Juan Aísa template, big multi-purpose players. They also played young people like J.A. Aguilar. The coach was Miguel Angel Martin, and his assistant José Vicente Hernández.
• 1993-94: Once again semi-finalist and defeated by the later champion.
• 1996-1997: Students get third place in the League, eliminated in semifinals by Barcelona, which finished champion. They played: Nacho Azofra, Carlos Jiménez, Iñaki De Miguel, Juan Aísa, Chandler Thompson, Shaun Vandiver. Coach was José Vicente Hernández, "Pepu".
• 1997: Semifinalist of the league, once again eliminated by the Barça de Epi and Djordjevic, in the first year without Alberto Herreros, that season had gone to Real Madrid.
• 1999: Students are the Korac Cup subfield, in a Spanish double-game finale. Students-Barcelona CF (93-77 on the way in Madrid, and 97-70 on the round in Barcelona). On the way, magnificent match both in the inner and outer game by Students. Students had just lost Chandler Thompson in the semifinals with a serious injury (Thompson had a portentous jumping capacity, was 4 times the winner of the ACB math contest) and the second American could not play by the FIBA rules and therefore students had serious difficulties in the rebounds. At the beginning of the match, another injury: Enrique Bárcenas broke his nose before the Barcelona player Milan Gurovic. Only after the break got Students to break the equality, coming to establish a maximum difference of 20 points, that the Barcelona managed to reduce at the end to 16 when Students had many players eliminated by faults and playing with their latest available players, which were two juniors (Braña and Felipe Reyes). In the match back in Barcelona, however, the same Barcelona that had lost in Madrid for 16 points (with Djordjevic, Rentzias, Fernández, Alston, Gurovic, Nacho Rodríguez), managed to win for 27 points, thus proclaiming himself champion of the Korac Cup 1999.

2000s

• 2000: Students proclaim themselves champion of the King's Cup in Vitoria, winning the Pamesa of Valencia for 73-63. They played: Carlos Jiménez, Nacho Azofra, Alfonso Reyes, Chandler Thompson, Shaun Vandiver, Felipe Reyes, Gonzalo Martínez, Juan Aísa. Coach was José Vicente Hernández. Students eliminated in quarters the host, the Tau Ceramics; and in semifinals the San Fernando Box of Seville. That season Students played a very consistent game. Students were semi-finalist in the league, losing to Real Madrid a vibrant 3-2 elimination, resolved in the last second of the fifth match in the Saporta pavilion, as Chandler Thompson failed a tray. Djordjevic had spent that season from Barcelona to Madrid.
• 2001-2002: Semifinalist of League. In final quarters it eliminates the R. Madrid for 3 victories to 2, with adverse field factor, for the first time in playoffs. Azofra prayed for perfection in front of Raúl López, just before starting this period at the NBA. The Dementia, always original, showed a banner with reference to the march of Vic's base to Salt Lake City that said: Utah, it feels, Azofra is not sold.
• 8/3/2003: regular league match 2002-03, Real Madrid 59 - Students 84. One of the most overwhelming victories in the Real Madrid field at the time of 2000. The balance victories/derots with Real Madrid begins to be usually favorable to Students. The schoolyard team is at that time clearly the "first team of Madrid".
• 2003-2004: league champion for the fourth and first time in the ACB era, the greatest success in the years 2000.

In final quarters it eliminates the R. Madrid by 3-1. Students lost the first match at home with a big Bennett party in the extension, but then won the following three, and the fourth and last in the Royal Madrid Pavilion (then that pavilion would be demolished). The results were:

1.♪. match, in Madrid (Vistalegre-(Est)): Students - R. Madrid 85-87 OT

2.o partido, in Madrid (Saporta-(RM)): R. Madrid - Students 70-95

3.♪. match, in Madrid (Vistalegre-(Est)): Students - R. Madrid 73-66

4.o partido, in Madrid (Saporta-(RM)): R. Madrid - Students 85-90

Semifinal Tau Vitoria - Students (2-3). Great victory with a matching factor, against the leading team of the regular phase and great favorite for the title, and with final victory in Vitoria. From here the famous phrase "I see it so chungo, so remarkably difficult, that it is even possible", used later for the complicated final against FC Barcelona. The results were:

1.♪. match, in Vitoria: Tau - Students 87-76

2.o match, in Vitoria: Tau - Students 74-77

3.♪. match, in Madrid: Students - Tau 77-75

4.o partido, in Madrid: Students - Tau 91-99

5.o partido, in Vitoria: Tau - Students 84-97

Final Barcelona - Students (3-2). Minimal defeats in Barcelona and victories in Madrid.

1.♪. match, in Barcelona: Barcelona - Students 79-78

2.o partido, in Barcelona: Barcelona - Students 80-74

3.♪ match, in Madrid: Students - Barcelona 82-72

4.o partido, in Madrid: Students - Barcelona 85-68

5.o partido, in Barcelona: Barcelona - Students 69-64

As anecdote, Sergio Rodríguez debuted at the ACB at the last minute of the last game, noting a penetration above the post, at that time I culminated Patrick Femerling. That season "Pepu" was named coach of the year by a vote of the ACB trainers. Students visited the "dolphin square" and bathed in their source on numerous occasions during the playoffs: in the semi-final, and in the end, after each victory and also including the last match, although it did not mean to get the championship.

• 2004/05: Students eliminated Barcelona, then in force champion, for 3-1 in quarters of the end of the play offs with the adverse field factor, winning the first match in Barcelona. In semifinals, it was eliminated by Real Madrid. Real Madrid had in his favor the field factor and ended up winning the league in the final front of the Tau.
• 2005/06: After a complicated start of the season in which the team flirted with the lower part of the table and did not get the classification for the Copa del Rey (since the season 98/99 did not happen), Juan Antonio Orenga was dismissed as a coach arriving Pedro Martínez instead. The team managed to qualify for the Play-Off, something that at the beginning of the season was a virtually unattainable goal. Students were eliminated in the final quarters by the Unicaja de Malaga, which would later be crowned as a league champion signing the best season of their history.
• 2006/07: This season ended a cycle in Student with the departure of classic players like Carlos Jiménez and Nacho Azofra. For their part, they returned old known as Gonzalo Martínez and the American Marlon Garnett. A discreet course for the schoolboys who highlighted by the march of Pedro Martínez in the middle of the campaign by the technician of the Mariano de Pablos house. Students finished 9.o not being able to enter the play off, situation that was not given since 1984. The most positive of the season for the school board was to reach the semifinals of the ULEB Cup.
• 2007/08: 2008 was the year when Students were about to go down to the LEB league (second division). Until the last day the team did not achieve the desired stay that since the beginning of the season was in danger. Velimir Perasovic, who replaced Mariano de Pablos on the bench in the middle of the campaign, became one of the heroes of student salvation along with players such as Pancho Jasen, Sergio Sánchez and Gonzalo Martínez.

2010s

• 2011/12: The year of descent. The return of dear Pepu was not much less positive for the club. After a start of the season where it seemed that Students would not achieve great successes but also not great failures, the team gradually plunged into the lower part of the board until they entered down. Neither the Pepu Hernandez exit in favor of Trifón Poch, nor the incorporation of prestigious players such as the Americans Chris Lofton, the exmadridist Louis Bullock, Tariq Kirksay or the Willie Deane base managed to save a Students who descended in the last day in the eyes of a crowded Sports Palace. The great performances of Jayson Granger and Germán Gabriel, the two engines of the worst Students of history, were not enough to avoid the descent. However, the economic crisis played for the club, as one of the climbing teams failed to complete the registration in ACB. This way, students avoided the descent.
• 2015/16: Second decline in 4 years. The directive decides to dispense with Txus Vidorreta and bet on Diego Ocampo, with only one year of experience in ACB, to give the club fresh air. Students like Darío Brizuela or real Madrid canteranos such as Juancho Hernán Gómez who came from a serious knee injury, throw the car in the first stage of the season, marked by the low performance of the foreign tiles (Zach Graham, Brandon Thomas and later Tony Mitchell) and that places the team on the downs. As if from a decal of what happened four seasons ago, the club decides to change coach in the middle of the season to avoid the descent. Sergio Valdeolmillos puts the team's front, incorporating players like Nico Laprovittola, Levon Kendall and Diamon Simpson with a fairly regular and good performance considering the circumstances. In the last day, Students arrive with options to avoid the descent as long as they won their match against the last of the board, Guipuzkoa Basket, and Manresa lose against Laboral Kutxa Baskonia. Although Manresa loses, Students fail to win at the cab driver's house and certify their second decline in their history. As it happened in 2012, again in the face of the impossibility of promotion for economic incapacity of the LEB League teams to which they would have been promoted, the Students retained their position in the highest category of Spanish basketball. The ACB changed its criteria and requirements to belong to the highest category, and the club's directive, against the vast majority of "dementia" and the rest of the student hobby, sought to be saved in the offices. No one seems to remember that other clubs have also saved the category for economic incapacity of the ascending teams. The fact that the Community of Madrid intervenes to change and increase the promotion criteria goes against the philosophy of basketball. Even so, student hobby continues to bring many people to the court. Because of all this, the one who could once be a respected team, has become hated by all. The directive is the direct culprit, and thus its own words are upheld while they are still unable to give solidity to a team with such support.
• 2019/20: Once again the descent was cleared, leaving the last team classified in the absence of eleven days. However, the crisis of the coronavirus and the consequent reorganization of the competition, prohibiting the declines that season, saved the team from such a decline, which could have meant its disappearance. The reality is that this time it would be unfair to condemn any team to descend having played only 23 games of a total of 34 Regular League in a year with exceptional conditions for the covid. At that point the team had 5 Victorias and 18 Derrotas, missing 11 matches to dispute and avoiding the descent around 12 or 13 victories, would have required about 6 more victories to fight to avoid the descent, something that would have been complicated. Even more watching the team's career in recent years and that season.

2020s

• 2020/21: After several years avoiding in extremis the fall of category, this occurred in this season, finishing the team in penultimate position and ending a trajectory of sixty-four years in the elite of the Spanish basketball.

• 2021/22: In his first season in LEB Oro he played the first square that grants the direct promotion, which took the Granada. After losing against Granada itself at home for two points in a tight match, winning the Copa de la Reina playing such a final at its headquarters, The Palacio de los Deportes de Madrid, losing end of game in tight and controversial games against the Valladolid and Palencia, losing in an inspired day of a team with a lot of merit and recently ascended, Juaristi, played the "Play-Off" for the promotion against another 8 teams in neutral. In the first two eliminations to the best of 5 matches (who gets to 3 wins) is able to beat with some solidity two of their toughest rivals and to those who have suffered defeats this season. Valladolid and Palencia. The first noticed the lack of closet background and also got tired at the end of the season. The seconds this time were not able to take the cat to the water and Students stood in the final one, definitive, for the promotion against the Bàsquet Girona of Marc Gasol. In this contested match in Girona the Madrid group lost by 66-60 thus continuing one more season in the second category of Spanish basketball.

Colors and symbols

Access to the Antonio Magariños Pavilion.

The colors of the team's kit in the 2011-12 season are dark blue (first kit) and gray (second kit). During previous seasons, they were various shades of blue (dark, light blue...), and also He has dressed in black, red, yellow...

The original colors in 1948, when the club was founded, were simply the gymnastics equipment for the students of the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute: blue shirt and white pants. Depending on the main sponsor, Estudiantes has also worn, in addition to the previous colors, light blue, yellow, black, green, and even in second kits during the 70s, the color white.

The club's crest is a shield tapered at the lower point and contains the colors dark blue and light blue. The shield consists of a compound field divided into two unequal parts. In the upper, smaller third, the initials "E" and "C", for "Estudiantes Club", and in the lower largest part, from left to right, the initials "R", "I& #3. 4; and "M" intertwined around the I, for "Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu". The I occupies and divides this lower part into two equal parts. The small upper third and the lower right part are dark blue and the lower left part light blue. The edges of the fields and the shield are golden, as are the letters.

Although Estudiantes has not been prone to paraphernalia such as cheerleaders, the dolphin can be considered Estudiantes' informal mascot. The origin of this mascot is in the celebrations of the club's fans in case of extraordinary events in the Plaza de la República Argentina, a square very close to the club headquarters in the Antonio Magariños Pavilion, in the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute. The square has a central fountain where there are several statues of pairs of dolphins jumping over the water. For this reason, this square is also popularly known as the "square of the dolphins". Dolphins are often depicted with a blue back and a white abdomen. Coincidentally, the colors of the flag of the Argentine Republic are also light blue and white. The club's mascot is "El Delfín Ramiro" who walks around the field and the stands in home games.

On matchday 5 of the 2017/18 season, he plays with a pink kit, in support of the fight against breast cancer.

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History

Students players celebrate their victory in a ACB League match.

Human achievements and track record in European competitions

Honours of Prizes

• Euroleague: Semifinalist, playing the Final four (together with the Partizan de Belgrade, the Joventut de Badalona and the Olimpia de Milan):
  • 1991-1992 in front of the Joventut Club of Badalona (91-69, Istanbul)
• Korac Cup:
  • Subcampion (1998-1999) in front of FC Barcelona (final to double match 93-77 in Madrid, and 97-70 in Barcelona)
  • Semifinalist (temporary 1999-2000)
• FIBA Cup:
  • 2006-2007: Semifinalist, Final Four
• Recouple: Twice semi-finalist (1974, 1976)
• ULEB Cup: Twice semi-finalist (2003 and 2004)

History

• 1973-74: European debut in official competitions, in the Recopa. Semi-finalist.
• 1975-76: Coup. Semi-finalist.
• 1986-1987: Korac Cup: Final Room Holder
• 1987-1988: Korac Cup: Final Room Holder
• 1988-1989: Korac Cup: Final Room Holder
• 1989-1990: No participation
• 1990-1991: Korac Cup: Final Rooms
• 1991-1992: Euroleague: Classified Room
• 1992-1993: Euroleague: Eighth finaleen
• 1993-1994: Korac Cup: Eighteenth finale match
• 1994-1995: Korac Cup: Eighth finaleen
• 1995-1996: Korac Cup: Eighteenth finale match
• 1996-1997: Euroleague: Final Octavos
• 1997-1998: Euroleague: Final Octavos
• 1998-1999: Korac Cup
• 1999-2000: Korac Cup: Semifinalist
• 2000-2001: Euroleague: Eighth finals
• 2001-2002: Saporta Cup: Final Octavos
• 2002-2003: ULEB Cup: Semifinalist
• 2003-2004: ULEB Cup: Semifinalist
• 2004-2005: Euroleague: First round
• 2005-2006: ULEB Cup: First round
• 2006-2007: FIBA Cup: Semifinalist, Final Four
• 2007-2008: Not participating
• 2008-2009: Not involved
• 2009-2010: Not involved
• 2010-2011: Eurocup: Final rooms
• 2011-2012: No participation
• 2012-2013: No participation
• 2013-2014: No participation
• 2014-2015:
• 2015-2016: No participation
• 2016-2017: No participant
• 2017-2018: Basketball Champions League: Liguilla
• 2018-2019: Basketball Champions League: Fase Previa

Record in national competitions

Liga winners list

• 4 times league champion:
  • 1962-63, 1967-68, 1980-81 and 2003-04.

Record in Spanish League

Record in the ACB League / LEB Gold League

Dead time (Participants-Pamesa, November 19, 2005. In the photo you can see among others Sergio Rodríguez, Nacho Azofra, Carlos Suárez, Juan Antonio Orenga, Carlos Jiménez, Andrés Miso, Javier González and Mariano de Pablos

Cup Award Winners

• 3 times champion:
  • 1962-1963 in front of Real Madrid (94-90, San Sebastian)
  • 1991-1992 in front of CAI Zaragoza (61-56, Granada)
  • 1999-2000 versus Pamesa Valencia (73-63, Vitoria)
• 4 times subfield:
  • 1961-1962 in front of Real Madrid (80-66, Barcelona)
  • 1972-1973 against Real Madrid (123-79, Valencia)
  • 1974-1975 in front of Real Madrid (114-85, Jaén)
  • 1990-1991 vs FC Barcelona (67-65, Zaragoza)

Other national trophies

• Prince of Asturias Cup Basketball. 2 times champion:
  • 1985-1986 in front of Cacaolat Granollers (89-82, L'Alcora, Castellón)
  • 2021-2022 in front of the Club Baloncesto Granada Foundation (73-72, Wizink Center, Madrid)

Regional Trophies

It has 11 regional titles.

• Madrid Community Tournament (9): 1988/89, 1990/91, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 1999/00, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04.
• Madrid Tournament (Trofeo Marca) (1): 1964/65.
• Castile Championship (1): 1954/55.

Players

Squad 2022-23

Movistar Students 2022-2023
Players	Coaches
N.o Nac. Pos. Name Height Weight Proceedings 1 NGA! 13P Agbelese, Danny 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 105 kg (231 lb) Peristeri BC 3 USA! 5E Hughes, Mark 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 82 kg (180 lb) Força Lleida CE 4 ITA! 5E Jorgensen, Paul 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 80 kg (176 lb) Oviedo CB 5 ESP! 8A Sola, Adams(C/ca) 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 75 kg (165 lb) quarry 8 NOR! 10AP Jawara, Karamo 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 91 kg (200 lb) Bàsquet Girona 10 COL! 1B Attendance, Hansel 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) 77 kg (169 lb) Oviedo CB 11 ESP! 8A Alderete, Héctor(ca) 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 92 kg (202 lb) CB Menorca 13 Denmark! 13P Larsen, Kevin 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 112 kg (246 lb) CB Breogán 15 ESP! 8A Smith, Sean 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 88 kg (194 lb) CB Canarias 16 ESP! 1B Montero, Álex(ca) 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 84 kg (186 lb) quarry 19 ESP! 10AP Lopez, Hugo(ca) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 93 kg (206 lb) Real Canoe NCB 20 ESP! 8A Drame, Michael(ca) 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 88 kg (195 lb) quarry 30 ESP! 1B Franch, Josep 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 88 kg (194 lb) Bàsquet Girona 33 ESP! 5E Dominguez, Rubén(ca) 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 91 kg (200 lb) quarry 44 LAT! 1B Leimanis, Toms 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 86 kg (189 lb) BC Neptūnas Klaipėda 71 BRA! 10AP Demétrio, Leonardo 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 105 kg (231 lb) Victoria Liberties Pesaro	Coach Javi Rodríguez Assistant(s) Alberto Lorenzo Sergio Jiménez Delegate Javier Cabrerizo Legend (C) Captain (PE) European passport (CO) Cotonou Agreement (ca) quarry Mission Template

Technical Staff 2022-23

• Coach: Javi Rodríguez
• Assistant trainers: Alberto Lorenzo and Sergio Jiménez
• Delegate: Javier Cabrerizo
• Medical: Juan José Pérez Toledano
• Physical therapist: Oscar Otín
• Utillero: Oscar Carretero
• Head of perfomance: Arnau Moreno

Coaches

The quarry

Jaime Fernández Bernabé, from the quarry, during a match with the first team in 2013.

Without a doubt it is one of the essential characteristics of the club, which identifies it even outside of Spain.

The alevin, infantile, cadet and junior teams have won numerous trophies in different national and regional competitions throughout the club's more than 50-year history. Many Estudiantes players have been selected for the sub 20, junior, youth and children's teams. A number of them have also been selected in the senior Spanish team and appear above in the historical players section.

As an example, Estudiantes was proclaimed champion of the so-called sub-20 circuit, (with players like Soria, Yusta, Clark, Soto, Aspe, etc.), a tournament organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation and the ACB for the first time in the 2005/06 season, for players under 20 years of age. This tournament is made up of several concentrations throughout the season in various cities and a final with the best 8 teams.

Several players from this team that won the U20 circuit were selected for the 2006 Spanish U20 team that played in the U20 European Championship in Turkey (Soria, Yusta, Beirán, Aspe, also joining Carlos Suárez from the ACB team), staying out of the final selection Soria. Some fans question that Soria and Yusta, players with a great future ahead of them, had to leave the club, and in the 2006/07 season they played for La Laguna in the Leb2 league (Soria) and in the Real Madrid Leb2 team (Yusta).

In the 2005/2006 season, in addition to the women's team in the top flight, the club had a men's team in the EBA league (amateur league organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation) and a team in the women's first division, with 5 men's teams and 2 women's teams in the junior category, six men's teams and three women's in cadets, four men's teams and two women's teams in the children's category and seven more teams between pre-infantile and alevines (mixed). There is also a Basketball School with some four hundred enrolled and various campuses and clinics are organized throughout the year. In the 2005/06 season, seven teams from the Estudiantes academy, both in the male and female categories of the different age groups, qualified for the Spanish Championships in their category, being the only club in Spain to place so many teams in the phases championship finals.

In total, the Estudiantes academy is made up of some 900 players, in some forty teams, with a coaching staff made up of almost a hundred people including coaches, delegates, physical trainers and physiotherapists.

Playgrounds

Calentamiento del Estudiantes-Pamesa Valencia en el Madrid Arena, 19-11-2005).

Estudiantes have played the league matches and official competitions in the following fields or pavilions: 1) patio of the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute; 2) the "Nevera", pavilion first uncovered, then covered and later with parquet flooring, located in the Institute; 3) Antonio Magariños Sports Center pavilion, also located on Institute grounds; 4) Madrid Community Sports Palace, in the area of Calle Goya (from the 1987/88 season to 2000/01, when the Palace was destroyed by fire); 5) Palacio de Vistalegre, in the Carabanchel district, from the 2001/02 season to 2004/05, and 6) Madrid Arena, in the Casa de Campo, since the 2005/06 season. During the 2010-11 season, it has alternated between the Palacio de Vistalegre and the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. From the 2011-12 season onwards, he only played at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Both the courts in the courtyards of the Institute as well as the Magariños Sports Pavilion and "La Nevera", continue to be used by the Estudiantes youth teams to train and play their matches. On January 8, 2021, as a result of the Philomena storm, which caused the heaviest snowfall in fifty years in Madrid, the roof of the Refrigerator collapsed due to the weight of the snow, leaving the facility unusable. The loss, taking into account the intensive use during each day, seven days a week, both by the institute and by the club, is a very hard blow.

Estudiantes had plans for a Sports City in Sanchinarro, in the Hortaleza district, after the Madrid City Council approved in plenary session the transfer to the Estudiantes Foundation of two plots, measuring 50,125 and 11,100 square meters. The sports complex will include a large pavilion (58 meters wide by 72 meters long) to host competitions in basketball, handball, indoor soccer, tennis, volleyball, fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate, wrestling, roller hockey or gymnastics, an Olympic-sized indoor pool where official swimming and water polo championships can be practiced, a multipurpose room for dance, rhythmic and sports gymnastics classes that can eventually be used as an exhibition room or support room for other special events and a gym with various units for cardiovascular exercise, bodybuilding, maintenance gymnastics, two squash courts, with treatment cabins, a steam bath, sauna, hot and cold water pools and a relaxation room, and a large multipurpose room. The Colegio Estudiantes Las Tablas, a subsidized private institution, began operating on the same grounds in the 2010-2011 academic year, taking the values of the students in terms of "sports and something else" to a global educational dimension.

Club presidents and people honored by the club

Tribute to Carlos Jiménez, which could not be held in 2012 and was held in 2013.

Presidents: Antonio Magariños (founder, Head of Studies of the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute) (1948-1964); Anselmo Lopez (1964); José Hermida, professor at Ramiro de Maeztu, from 1964 to 1971; Pedro Dellmans, professor at Ramiro de Maeztu, from 1971 to 1983; Juan Francisco Moneo, professor at Ramiro de Maeztu, from 1983 to 1999; Alejandro González Varona, from 1999 to 2004; Juan Francisco Garcia (2005); Fernando Bermúdez, from 2005 to March 2008; Javier Tejedor, from March 2008 to July 2008; Juan Francisco García, from July 2008 to December 2014; Fernando Galindo Perdiguero from December 2014 to July 2022; Ignacio Triana Gracián since July 2022.

They have received the so-called "insignia of gold and diamonds" as a tribute by the club the following 14 people:

• Four presidents of the club: José Hermida, Pedro Dellmans, Juan Francisco Moneo and Alejandro González Varona (2008);
• Francisco González, as President of Argentaria, at his time of sponsoring the club;
• Three ex-jugators: Juan Antonio Martínez Arroyo, José Luis Sagi-Vela and John Pinone;
• José Vicente Hernández Fernández, "Pepu", coach of the quarry, of the ACB team many years and of the Spanish selection. Pepu received the badge in January 2006.
• Manolo Cavido and Petra Guzmán (important and inspiring personalities in the early years of the club, one as delegate and another attending the Institute's cafeteria and the hungry and thirsty children players)
• Alberto Toledano, as managing director of Asefa Seguros (club sponsor)
• César Alierta, former executive president of Telefónica, executive president of the Fundación Telefónica.
• Luis Miguel Gilpérez, former president of Telefónica España.

Nacho Azofra had in September 2007, after his retirement, a tribute match between club legends at the Antonio Magariños Sports Center. The point guard trained at Ramiro de Maeztu surprised everyone present dressed as a bullfighter.

Carlos Jiménez was honored for his career as a Estudiantes player on February 17, 2013, the day the team faced Club Baloncesto Málaga, the other club Jiménez played for.

Hernán "Pancho" Jasen was honored on April 1, 2012, the day Estudiantes faced C.B.Sevilla, and on February 9, 2019, once retired, in the Movistar Estudiantes- Morabanc Andorra match.

Coaches trained at the club

• Antonio Díaz-Miguel
• Aíto García Renes
• José Vicente Hernández
• Juan Antonio Orenga
• José Ramón Cuspinera

Club Sponsors

• Monteverde (1971-77). Bottled water company
• Mudespa (1978-81). Insurance company
• Postal Fund (1981-87). Bank sector
• Todagrés (1987-88). Ceramic company
• Bosé (1988-89). Sound company
• Postal Box (1989-1992). Bank sector
• Argentarian (1992-97). Bank sector
• Adecco (1998-2006). Temporary employment
• MMT Insurance (2006-2009). Insurance Mutual
• Asefa (2009-2013). Insurance Company
• Tuenti Mobile (2013-2014). Mobile Phone Operator
• Movistar (2014-). Telephone operator