Premium Content Subscriber only WITH a core of home grown players, the Ipswich Force men's basketball team has been progressing tremendously in recent years. This season, they have the perfect player to inspire them further. Force has secured professional National Basketball League and Australian Boomers achiever Matt Hodgson for the inaugural NBL1 North season starting next month. After last year's new competition was postponed due to COVID, the Force men reached the semi-finals of the Queensland State League, having finished the regular season in second. Ipswich Force head coach Chris Riches is delighted to have a player the stature of Hodgson returning to his home town team.