Six-time Nigeria Premier Basketball League champions, Rivers Hoopers, have been drawn to play within the Kalahari Convention for the 2025 Basketball Africa League (BAL) season.
In a press release launched by the BAL on Friday, the KingsMen will face FUS Rabat of Morocco, Egypt’s Al Ittihad, and Stade Malien of Mali between fifth and thirteenth April on the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports activities Complicated in Rabat, Morocco.
Hoopers will play their first match towards Stade Malien at 4pm GMT.
The 2025 BAL season will see groups divided into three teams, with 4 groups in every group.
Every group will play a 12-game round-robin section, the place every staff will face the opposite three groups twice.
The highest two groups from every group, plus the 2 finest third-placed groups throughout all teams, will transfer on to the playoffs.
The eight groups that qualify will then play 4 seeding video games, adopted by an eight-game, single-elimination playoff and finals from sixth to 14th June on the Sunbet Enviornment in Pretoria, South Africa.
This will probably be Rivers Hoopers’ third look within the Basketball Africa League, having competed within the inaugural season in 2021 and final season, the place they completed third.
