 Fortunately, the Basketball Bundesliga (Germany´s top basketball league) had just committed to expanding the amount of teams, so there were two extra wild card slots that could be purchased for an amount of 100.000 Euro.The club´s financial resources, however, were rather scarce, due to the lack of success in the previous seasons.Therefore, team was only able to afford the license, because of the help of three sponsors (BS Energy, Öffentliche Braunschweig, Volkswagen Sport Förderung).