Here are results and statistics from the National Basketball League season of 1979.

This is the ladder at the end of season, before the finals. In all, 90 games were played, 18 for each team. The top two teams then played a sudden death grand final.

There was only one final played in this season and it was contested by the Top 2 teams.

St. Kilda Saints 94 to Canberra Cannons 93

The Saints won on a reverse layup just before the buzzer by Peter Vittles.

Larry Sengstock (born 4 March 1960 in Maryborough, Queensland) is a retired Australian basketball player and the current CEO of Basketball Australia and NBL.

Larry played for Lang Park Basketball club as a junior. He was one of the star players in the early years of Australia's fledgling National Basketball League (NBL). Sengstock played 456 NBL games over 18 seasons, starting with the St. Kilda Saints and later playing for the Brisbane Bullets, Gold Coast Rollers and North Melbourne Giants.

Sengstock won five NBL championship rings, his first coming in 1979 with St Kilda. He was named Most Valuable Player in the 1979 Grand Final; twenty years later, the Grand Final MVP award would be renamed the Larry Sengstock Medal in his honour.

Sengstock would also win an NBL championship in 1980, again as a St. Kilda Saint. That year he was also named to the Australian Olympic team for the first time and played for the Boomers in Moscow. He also represented Australia at the Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona Olympic Games, and at four FIBA World Championship tournaments (1978, 1982, 1986, 1990).