OLUSEGUN IKUESAN
The Nigeria Basketball federation (NBBF) has fixed February and March as the dunk-off dates for the men and women league.
This was contained in a statement released by the Secretariat of the Nigeria federation at the end of a 4-day stakeholders forum and pre-season seminar held in Abuja.
According to NBBF president, Tijjani Umar the mens DStv league will start on February 28 in Lagos while the Zenith Bank women league retains it phases format with the first phase billed for Abuja on March 19.
The pre-season saw a total of sixty-one referees taking part in physical exercises and examination to determine their readiness ahead of the jump-ball date while, thirty-nine technical officials also wrote examinations conducted by trio of Nigerian FIBA graded referees, Babatunde Popoola, Olayinka Famogbiyele and Kingsley Ojeaburu.
The NBBF also confirmed the relegation of Comets basketball club from the Atlantic conference and Yelwa Hawks basketball club from the Savannah conference of the DStv league and promoted Kwara Falcons basketball club of Ilorin and Gombe Bulls basketball club respectively.
The Dstv league will retain its home and away format just as changes were made to the playoff format with four teams qualifying for the final-8 playoffs from each of the Atlantic and Savannah conferences of the league.
Source: http://www.fibaafrica.com
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