The Great Falls Electric professional basketball team is back for their second season in The Basketball League (TBL) and the team has released their regular season game schedule for the upcoming
2025 season.
The TBL, which is entering their eighth season as a professional basketball organization, is “Where the spirit of the game lives.” The league started with eight teams in 2018 and expanded to 40 teams in 2024 and consists of four conferences (Central, Midwest, East, and West) playing 24 regular season contests from March through May 2025 with playoffs starting in June 2025.
The Great Falls Electric, are playing in their second season in the TBL under first-year head coach Steve
Keller, who was hired in July 2024. Great Falls businessman Jim Keough bought the TBL franchise in June
2023 and they will have 24 total regular season contests including twelve home dates at Swarthout
Fieldhouse on the campus of Great Falls High School.
The Electric will begin the 2025 season with a two-game homestand against the Wenatchee (WA) Bighorns. The Electric’s will visit three cities for their first road trip of the season beginning with a March 14th date with the Salem (OR) Capitals, followed by a contest in Vancouver, Washington where they will face the Volcanoes on March 15th and will conclude the trip in Eugene, Oregon where they will challenge the Emerald City Jaguars. All the home games start at 7:00PM (MST) except for a Sunday, March 23rd contest against the Salem Capitals that will begin at 4:00PM (MST).
“We are really excited to have one of the premiere coaches in Montana history in Coach (Steve) Keller,”
said Great Falls Electric General Manager Jim Keough. “The players we have signed already have put us in
the path to win it all. We have the best sponsors and fans in the whole (TBL) league.”
Players will report to Great Falls in February 2024 under new Head Coach Steve Keller, who will be
assisted by former Great Falls High School standout Brendan Howard. Howard was a member of the
inaugural Great Falls Electric team as a player and will now transition to an assistant coach role. Keller, who is currently an assistant coach with the Rocky Mountain Battlin’ Bears men’s hoop team in Billings, Montana and was formerly the University of Providence (Great Falls, MT) head men’s basketball coach (2018-2023), was named the head coach in July 2024.
“I am excited to see our schedule out,” said Great Falls Electric head coach Steve Keller. “The road
schedule will be extremely difficult. Our team depth should help us compete, at home and on the road.”
There will be many familiar faces returning to the Electric’s lineup this season including Antwaan
Cushingberry, The Basketball League’s Rookie of the Year and All-Conference West First Team
selection, Lyle Hexom (TBL All-Conference West Second Team selection), Isaac Howard, Kareem
Jamar, Sahmi Willoughby, just to name a few.
Great Falls will be one of ten teams in the West Conference with most teams in Washington (Seattle Super
Great Falls Electric Basketball Hawks, Vancouver Volcanoes and Wenatchee Bighorns), California (Bakersfield Majestics, Los Angeles Ignite, Long Beach Blue Waves and San Diego Sharks) and Oregon (Emerald City Jaguars and Salem Capitals) but will play just the five teams in Washington and Oregon during the regular season.
