2023 CEBL season

2023 CEBL season
League	Canadian Elite Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
Duration	Season: May 24 – July 31 Play-in games: August 4, 2023 Playoffs: August 6–13
Number of games	20 per team
Number of teams	10
TV partner(s)	TSN
Draft
Top draft pick	Simon Hildebrandt
Picked by	Winnipeg Sea Bears
Regular season
Top seed	Niagara River Lions
Season MVP	Teddy Allen
Top scorer	Justin Wright-Foreman
Championship weekend
Venue	Langley Events Centre Langley, B.C.
Champions	Scarborough Shooting Stars
Runners-up	Calgary Surge
Finals MVP	Isiaha Mike
Seasons
← 2022 2024 →

The 2023 CEBL season was the fifth season of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). It began on May 24, 2023, and the regular season ended on July 30, 2023. It was the inaugural season for the Calgary Surge and the Winnipeg Sea Bears. The Calgary Surge relocated from Guelph while Winnipeg was added as an expansion franchise.

This year was the first season where the league was divided in two conferences. The top four teams in each conference qualified for the playoffs; had the Vancouver Bandits finished in fifth place in the Western Conference, the fourth-place team would have been eliminated instead; as hosts, the Bandits automatically qualify for the semi-finals as a de facto first-place team, along with the first-place team from the Eastern Conference. The playoffs commence with the third- and fourth-placed teams in play-in matches, with the winners facing their own conference's second-place teams in the quarterfinals. The quarterfinal winners will then face their respective division semi-final opponent.^[1]

On March 16, 2023, CEBL announced a television deal with TSN: TSN will televise weekly games and broadcast the rest of the games online, and they will also televise the championship weekend.^[2]