italy serie bSerie B Basket first began in the 1937–38 season as the second level of the Italian basketball league system, and it remained the 2nd-tier level of the Italian basketball pyramid untilThe Serie B (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛːrje ˈbi] [1]), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, [2] is the second-hhest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A.