The fourth version of the Ibadan Basketball Championships tipped off on Friday on the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan. The 2-day competitors options eight groups: six males’s groups and two girls’s groups.
The collaborating males’s groups embrace Showtyme Hoopers, Liberty Spears, College of Ibadan, The Polytechnic Ibadan, Rising Stars, and defending champions Hoop Desires, who suffered a loss of their opening sport.
The ladies’s competitors options Rising Stars and Showtyme Angels.
The fourth version of the Ibadan Basketball Championships started on Friday on the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan. The defending champions, Hoop Desires, misplaced their opening sport.
Opeyemi Adekunle, the coach of Hoop Desires, spoke after their sport and stated their aim stays retaining the title regardless that they misplaced their first match 63-70.
“We misplaced our first match to the College of Ibadan by seven factors, however that won’t derail us. We’re right here to retain our title.
“We performed the primary match within the event with fatigue and another technical points which made us lose.
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“However we have now put the loss behind us, and we’re able to play different video games cautiously to realize our goal,” he stated.
In different male competitors video games performed on Friday, Showtyme Hoopers defeated The Polytechnic Ibadan 62-49, whereas the College of Ibadan defeated Liberty Spears 57-52.
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NAN studies that the male class winner will take house N250,000, whereas the primary and second runners-up will obtain N150,000 and N100,000, respectively.
Within the feminine class, the place the 2 members will solely face one another on Saturday, the winners will obtain N200,000, whereas the losers will obtain N150,000.
NAN studies that the championships is being sponsored by some retired Oyo State basketball gamers primarily based within the diaspora.
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