2004 LNBP season explained

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Nextseason:	2005
2004 LNBP season
Season:	5
Champions:	Santos Reales de San Luis
Runners Up:	Halcones UV Xalapa
Teams:	20
Dates:	July 1, 2004 – December 8, 2004

The 2004 LNBP was the 5th season of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, one of the professional basketball leagues of Mexico. It started on July 1, 2004 and ended on December 8, 2004.^[1] The league title was won by Santos Reales de San Luis, which defeated Halcones UV Xalapa in the championship series, 4–2.

Format

20 teams participate.^[2] The teams are divided in 2 groups of 10 teams each, called Zonas (zones): Zona Norte (North) and Zona Sur (South). The first 8 teams of each group qualify for the playoffs. The group playoffs have quarterfinals (best-of-5), semifinals (best-of-7) and finals (best-of-7).^[3] The winner of each group series qualify for the championship series (best-of-7), named Campeón de Campeones (Champion of Champions).

Teams

Team	City	State	Joined	Season No.
Algodoneros de la Comarca	Torreón	Coahuila
Barreteros de Zacatecas	Zacatecas City	Zacatecas
Cometas de Querétaro	Querétaro City	Querétaro
Coras de la UAN	Tepic	Nayarit
Correcaminos UAT Matamoros	Matamoros	Tamaulipas
Correcaminos UAT Tampico	Tampico	Tamaulipas
	Ciudad Victoria	Tamaulipas
Fuerza Regia de Monterrey	Monterrey	Nuevo León
Gambusinos de Fresnillo	Fresnillo	Zacatecas
Garzas de Plata de la UAEH	Pachuca	Hidalgo
Halcones UV Xalapa	Xalapa	Veracruz
Lechugueros de León	León	Guanajuato
Leñadores de Durango	Durango City	Durango
Lobos de la UAdeC	Saltillo	Coahuila
Lobos Plateados de la BUAP	Puebla	Puebla
La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal	Mexico City	Distrito Federal
Panteras de Aguascalientes	Aguascalientes City	Aguascalientes
Santos Reales de San Luis	San Luis Potosí City	San Luis Potosí
Tecos de la UAG	Guadalajara	Jalisco
Tuberos de Colima	Colima City	Colima

Regular season

Zona Sur standings

Note: The LNBP website calculates 51 points for Garzas de Plata de la UAEH, thus ranking the team below Coras de la UAN.

Playoffs

Source^[4]

Copa Independencia

The first edition of the Copa Independencia, a tournament that took place in September, was played between the 8 best ranked teams at the end of the first part of the season.^[5] The tournament was won by Lobos de la UAdeC, which defeated Lechugueros de León, 94–88 in the final game played at Gimnasio Hermanos Carreón in Aguascalientes.^[6]

Quarterfinals

• September 5: Lecugueros de León 103, Fuerza Regia de Monterrey 92
• September 5: Halcones UV Xalapa 96, La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal 83
• September 6: Santos Reales de San Luis 105, Cometas de Querétaro 101
• September 6: Lobos de la UAdeC 129, Panteras de Aguascalientes 117 (2OT)

Semifinals

• September 7: Lechugueros de León 102, Santos Reales de San Luis 89
• September 7: Lobos de la UAdeC 122, Halcones UV Xalapa 116

Final

All-Star Game

The 2004 LNBP All-Star Game was played in San Luis Potosí at the Auditorio Miguel Barragán on August 31, 2004. The game was played between a team of Mexican players (Mexicanos) and a team of foreign players (Extranjeros). The Mexican won, 111–106.^[7]

Teams

Mexicanos

• Miguel Acuña (Tecos de la UAG)
• Víctor Ávila (Halcones UV Xalapa)
• Enrique González (Halcones UV Xalapa)
• Javier González Rex (La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal)
• Alonso Izaguirre (Lobos de la UAC)
• Horacio Llamas (Lechugueros de León)
• Omar López (Tecos de la UAG)
• Víctor Mariscal (Lobos de la UAC)
• José Portillo (Santos Reales de San Luis)
• Omar Quintero (Fuerza Regia de Monterrey)
• Gabriel Sandoval (Lechugueros de León)
• Enrique Zúñiga (Lechugueros de León)

• Coaches: Ángel González (Halcones UV Xalapa) and Francisco Torres (Lechugueros de León)

Extranjeros

• Boubacar Aw (La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal)
• Devon Ford (Panteras de Aguascalientes)
• Reggie Jordan (Cometas de Querétaro)
• Keenan Jourdon (Correcaminos UAT Victoria)
• Roland Lamont (Correcaminos UAT Matamoros)
• Andre Laws (Halcones UV Xalapa)
• Jason McCutcheon (Lobos de la UAC)
• Tyrone McDaniel (Correcaminos UAT Victoria)
• Matt Mitchell (Panteras de Aguascalientes)
• Antonio Rivers (Fuerza Regia de Monterrey)
• Jamaal Thomas (Santos Reales de San Luis)

• Coaches: Carlos Díaz Rodríguez (Garzas de Plata de la UAEH) and Luis Manuel López (Santos Reales de San Luis)

External links

• 2004 LNBP season on Latinbasket.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20040210082156/http://lnbp.com.mx/calendario/index1.html. Calendario. es. lnbp.com.mx. February 10, 2004. April 30, 2020.
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204094540/http://www.lnbp.com.mx/sedes.htm. Equipos y Sedes. es. lnbp.com.mx. December 4, 2004. April 30, 2020.
3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050311014134/http://www.lnbp.com.mx/tabla%20playoff.htm. Play Offs. es. lnbp.com.mx. March 11, 2005. April 30, 2020.
4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050311014134/http://www.lnbp.com.mx/tabla%20playoff.htm. Tabla Playoff. es. lnbp.com.mx. March 11, 2005. April 30, 2020.
5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20041206205635/http://www.lnbp.com.mx/juego%20estrellas.htm. RESULTADOS DEL JUEGO DE ESTRELLAS. lnbp.com.mx. es. December 6, 2004. May 2, 2020.
6. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20041126094347/http://www.lnbp.com.mx/copa.htm. LOBOS DE LA UA DE C GRAN CAMPEÓN DE LA COPA INDEPENDENCIA DE LA LNBP 2004. lnbp.com.mx. es. November 26, 2004. May 2, 2020.
7. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305201301/http://www.lnbp.com.mx/web2/nota.php?idnota=14071. JUEGO DE ESTRELLAS, LA EXHIBICIÓN DE PODER. lnbp.com.mx. March 5, 2016. es. April 29, 2020.