Okay, so yesterday afternoon, I totally blanked. Couldn’t for the life of me remember how many teams were actually playing in Uruguay’s top basketball league this year. Felt stupid. Like, I know this stuff usually, but my brain just froze.
The Annoying Search Begins
First thing I did? Slammed “Liga Uruguaya basketball teams 2024” into my search bar. Easy, right? Wrong. Instantly swamped with garbage. News sites yakking about last week’s games, old lists from like 2020, betting sites pretending to be updated… total mess. Found one site listing a team, but that’s useless! Where are the rest?
Spent maybe 20 minutes banging my head against this. Clicked page after page. “2024 Season” plastered everywhere, but the lists underneath? Dead wrong. Teams missing, teams added last year nowhere to be seen. Infuriating! Almost threw my mouse across the room.
Switching Tactics
Okay, deep breath. Forget search engines. Maybe the league itself has something? Went straight to the federation’s site. It’s… clunky. Navigation’s not great. Clicked around sections labeled “Competitions” or “Teams.” Took a while, felt like going in circles. Finally found a tiny link buried near the bottom of some news article about fixtures. Something like “Participating Clubs 2024”. Jackpot? Maybe.
Actually Getting Somewhere
Clicked it. Didn’t explode! Got a page. Plain text. No fancy graphics, just names. Scanned it. Names looked familiar – Nacional, Biguá, those guys. But wait, was this all of them? Counted quickly. Seemed like 12? Or was it 14? Lost count. Had to go back and count properly, writing them down this time.
- Scrolled: Okay, Aguada – yep.
- Biguá – obviously.
- Defensor Sporting – always there.
- Kept going: Goes… Hebraica y Macabi… Larre Borges…
- Made it halfway: Malvín… Nacional… Olivol Mundial – wait, Mundial? Had to double-check that one later.
- Bottom half: Peñarol… Trouville… Urupan… Yale. Yale? Sounds weird, but okay.
Stared at my scratched-up list. Twelve names. But was it official? Paranoia set in. Checked another page on the same site – a fixture list. Looked at the teams listed to play each other on the schedule. Scanned through. Aguada vs Trouville? Check. Malvín vs Peñarol? Check. All 12 from my list appeared in the fixtures. Okay, felt pretty solid now.
Wanted to be extra sure, though. Went back and found the official competition registration announcement. Dug deep. Buried in the boring legal stuff? Bam! There was a simple list confirming the 12 registered teams for the season. Exactly the same ones I had scribbled down. Finally. Relief.
Wrapping It Up
So yeah, after all that fuss, here’s the deal for 2024: Liga Uruguaya basketball has these teams playing:
- Aguada
- Biguá
- Defensor Sporting
- Goes
- Hebraica y Macabi
- Larre Borges
- Malvín
- Nacional
- Olivol Mundial
- Peñarol
- Trouville
- Urupan
- Yale
Simple, right? Twelve teams. Took way longer than it should have, thanks to the wild goose chase online. But hey, got it nailed down now. Official federation stuff usually has the truth, you just gotta dig through the muck sometimes.
