After a month of games, there are two 1-7 teams in the B. League's 18-team first division. And they are both vying to climb out of the cellar.

The Central Division's Toyama Grouses, last season's bj-league championship runner-up squad, has stumbled out of the gate in the first month of the season.

The West's Shiga Lakestars have also failed to put together a winning streak so far.