title: ASCUT
text: # ASCUT
  
  Association Sportive de la Commune Urbaine de Toamasina, commonly known as ASCUT, is a Malagasy basketball team from Toamasina. The team plays in the Malagasy N1A, the highest national level and has won the national championship 6 times.
  
  ## History
  
  The club was established in 2004 by Narson Rafidimanana, at the time the vice-president of the urban community of Toamasina. One year after the club's creation it won the national second division N1B. In 2006, ASCUT entered the N1A, the country's highest level, for the first time.
  
  The team won its first national championship in 2008 and later had a fourpeat with consecutive championships from 2011 to 2014.
  
  In 2021, ASCUT won its sixth Malagasy N1A title after defeating GNBC in the final. Pierre Rabearison was the team's head coach.
  
  The team was originally scheduled to play in the 2022 BAL Qualifying Tournaments but withdrew.
  
  ## Honours
  
  * Malagasy N1A
  
      Champions (6): 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020–21
  * Malagasy N1B
  
      Champions (1): 2005
  * Indian Ocean Champions Cup
  
      Champions (2): 2009, 2013
  