Playing their home games at the Roanoke Civic Center, their logo design featured a star moving on rail tracks around a basketball.

[1] Competing with Hampton for Virginia's NBDL team, Roanoke was evaluated as a potential franchise location based on its population, arena size and lack of a major NCAA basketball program in the Roanoke Valley.

[2] By June 2001, Donna Daniels was named team president and Kent Davison was announced as the first head coach in franchise history.

[4] The Dazzle would be victorious in the inaugural game on November 18, 2001, against the Mobile Revelers in the Roanoke Civic Center.

League President Phil Evans briefly held out the possibility of a local ownership group operating the team.