The Canadian Elite Basketball League will expand its schedule to 24 games for its seventh season in 2025. Additionally, the CEBL has released the 2025 season for its ten teams.
The Saskatchewan Rattlers' season will open at home on May 15th when they play their Western Conference rivals, the Vancouver Bandits, at SaskTel Centre.
Also highlighting the 2025 campaign, for the first time, all 10 teams will be in action on the same day with four quintuple headers booked (June 6, June 22, August 8, and August 10), including the final day of the regular season.
Additionally, the schedule showcases two quadruple headers, nine tripleheaders headlined by one on Canada Day, and 84 games falling on weekends (Fri-Sat-Sun) with “CEBL Friday” featuring 35 games.
The 2025 season will end with Championship Weekend (CW25) in Winnipeg from August 21-24. With at least one home and away matchup between all teams in 2025, every team will visit every CEBL city next summer.
For the Rattlers the season will also be historic as their seventh season will surpass the total number of combined-seasons from previous Saskatchewan teams; Saskatchewan Storm (90’ – 92’), Saskatoon Slam (92’ – 94’), and Saskatchewan Hawks (00’ – 02’).
The Rattlers have a balanced schedule for the 2025 season, with their season kicking off with a three-game homestand starting on May 15th playing against the Vancouver Bandits, Edmonton Stingers, and 2024 CEBL Champion Niagara River Lions. Saskatchewan will start a three-game road trip in Scarborough on May 29, returning home on June 8th to play their second game against Vancouver.
They Rattlers will then alternate homestands and road trips for the remainder of the schedule playing three home games in June, four home games in July, and two home games in August. Saskatchewan will close out their regular season on home court against the Brampton Honey Badgers on August 10th before CW25.
