The club was a division of the University of the Sunshine Coast Basketball Association (USCBA) and played their home games at USC Stadium.
The USCBA was established in July 2008, with their first junior team playing in Basketball Queensland's representative competitions in 2009.
[1] In 2014, the association entered both a men's and women's team into the Southern Basketball League (SBL) under the name of Sunshine Coast Rip.
[5][6] In October 2015, the Sunshine Coast Rip were granted a license to play in the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) in 2016.
[13] In 2022, the men's team reached the NBL1 North Grand Final,[14] where they lost the best-of-three series 2–0 to the Gold Coast Rollers.