The 2012 International Basketball League season kicks off tonight when the Olympia Reign hosts the Bellingham Slam in their new home at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino.

The game features a slew of former Saint Martin’s and Evergreen basketball players including the Geoducks’ Nate Menefee, Mike Ward, Marcus Whitaker and Nicholas Moore for the Reign and former Saints Blake Poole and Jeremy Green for the Slam.

Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 Players Club members and children 12 under are free. And the Skookum Creek Events Center will feature something that the Reign have never been able to offer before at their home games, a beer garden open for fans 21 and over.

Read more about the Reign’s opener in The Olympian’s preview. The Olympian also had a feature about Blake Poole yesterday that is worth a read.