The basketball section, even though the first team was founded in 1924,[3] first achieved prominence in 1938 by winning the National Cup in gymnastics under the Sports Federation of France (FGSPF).

[4] In the same years, the club won three league titles in France in 1960-61, 1961–62 and 1966–67, came twice in the round of 16 of the FIBA European Champions Cup in 1961-62 and 1962-63.

Ιn the first case the obstacle was the Belgian Antwerpse and in the second Ivo Daneu's Olimpija from Ljubljana.

The 1967-68 season, Alsace Bagnolet returned to European Champions Cup but eliminated in the first round by Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Alsace de Bagnolet permanently leaves the world of French basketball high level in 1978.