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2017–18 Pro B season
Season	2017–18
Teams	18
Regular season
Season MVP	Tyren Johnson
Promoted	Blois Fos Provence
Relegated	Le Havre Étoile Charleville-Mézières
Finals
Champions	Blois (1st title)
Statistical leaders
Points Amin Stevens 17.9 Rebounds Amin Stevens 8.9 Assists Alex Abreu 6.5
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The 2017–18 Pro B season was the 31st season of the Pro B, the top basketball league in France organised by the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB). Blois won its first league title.

Teams

Promotion and relegation

Orléans Loiret and SLUC Nancy entered the league after they relegated from the 2016–17 Pro A season. UJAP Quimper 29 and Caen Basket Calvados were promoted from the 2016–17 NM1 season.

Regular season

In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The table leader will promote to the Pro A while the numbers two until nine qualify for the promotion playoffs. The last two placed teams are relegated to the NM1.

Standings

1. Denain Voltaire automatically qualified for the playoffs as winners of the Leaders Cup.

Promotion playoffs

The seven highest ranked seeds in the regular season, excluding the league champions, qualify for the promotion playoffs. They are joined by the winner of the LNB Pro B Leaders Cup. All rounds of the promotion playoffs are played in a best-of-three format.

Pro B Leaders Cup

The winner of the LNB Pro B Leaders Cup automatically qualified for the promotion playoffs as the top seeded team. The quarter- and semi-finals in the Leaders Cup are played in two-legged format. The Final was played on 18 February in Disneyland Paris. Prior to the final eight teams, teams played in six groups of three teams to determine which teams would qualify for the quarter-finals.

Individual awards

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
October	Miralem Halilović	Orléans Loiret	22.5
November	Miralem Halilović (2)	Orléans Loiret	23.7
December	Jerrold Brooks	ADA Blois	16.5
January	Tyren Johnson	ADA Blois	22.0
February	Kammeon Hosley	UJAP Quimper 29	21.3
March	Benoit Mbala	Chorale Roanne	17.0
April	Jonathan Hoyaux	Saint-Chamond	19.0
May	Rakeem Buckels	Lille Métropole	21.5

See also

• 2017–18 Pro A season

References

1. Anthony GUILLE. "Sluc Nancy, le grand chantier de la Pro B". Republicain-lorrain.fr. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
2. "Orléans Loiret Basket en ProB : Laurent Lhomme s'explique". Larep.fr. 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
3. "Le Caen basket Calvados officiellement en Pro B !". Francebleu.fr. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
4. "Basket à Quimper. Après la victoire et la montée de l'Ujap, la fête !" (in French). Ouest-france.fr. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
5. "Miralem Halilovic MVP du mois d'octobre" (in French). bebasket.fr. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
6. "Le doublé pour Miralem Halilovic MVP du mois de novembre". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 9 December 2017.
7. "Jerrold Brooks MVP du mois de décembre". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
8. "Tyren Johnson MVP du mois de janvier". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 4 February 2018.
9. "Kammeon Holsey (Quimper) MVP du mois de février". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 5 March 2018.
10. "Benoit Mbala, MVP du mois de mars". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 8 April 2018.
11. "Jonathan Hoyaux (Saint-Chamond), MVP du mois d'avril". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 15 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
12. "Rakeem Buckels, MVP du mois de mai". bebasket.fr. bebasket. 28 May 2018.

• 2017–18 in European second tier basketball leagues
• 2017–18 in French basketball