The Rochester Skeeters were a Minnesota-based minor league hoops outfit that played two International Basketball Association (IBA) seasons at the Mayo Civic Center between 1998 and 2000. The IBA was a low-budget league that operated primarily in the Upper Midwest and Western Canada. The Skeeters left town after two seasons, moving to Salina, Kansas during the summer of 2000.
Short-lived minor league basketball franchise that made its home in Rochester, Minnesota, not New York. The Rochester Flyers posted losing seasons in both years of operation, including a last place 16-38 record in the Continental Basketball Association season during the 1988-89 season. The team moved to Omaha, Nebraska following that last place campaign.
We’re talking Rochester, Minnesota – not New York – for this early Nineties minor league hoops entry from the Continental Basketball Association. This was the CBA’s second go-round at Rochester’s Mayo Civic Center, following the equally short-lived Flyers (1987-1989). The Renegade were notable mainly for posting the worst record (6-50) in the long history of the CBA during their debut season in 1993-94. Rochester’s second season saw the addition of an ‘s’ to the team’s name and a remarkable change in fortune on the court as the team improved to 31-25 under former Minnesota T-Wolves chief Bill Musselman.
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