The second phase of the 2024 NBBF/Zenith Bank National Women’s Basketball League dunks off on September 22 and runs until September 28 in Enugu and Abuja.
Sixteen teams competed in the first and will be competing in second phase scheduled for different centres in the Savannah and Atlantic Conference league.
The national finals will take place from October 13 to 19 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.
In the first phase, First Bank excelled in the Atlantic Conference, winning all their matches in Akure, while the Customs Basketball team achieved the same success in the Savannah Conference held in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
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MFM women basketball team is the defending champion of the league with former champions like First Bank, Customs, Dolphins, Air Warriors, targeting a return to the podium this time around.
Meanwhile, Zenith Bank PLC, the sole sponsor of the National Women’s Basketball League for nearly two decades, is thrilled with the growth of women’s basketball in Nigeria.
The Group Managing Director and CEO of Zenith Bank, Adaora Umeoji, says the outfit is always delighted that the investment in basketball is fast yielding positive fruits.
Umeoji said: “We are really happy that the women national team, D Tigress, are catching up with the rest of the world with our products in the league as part of the success story.
“The fast growth of the game will further propel up to do more just as we are happy with the ongoing league across the country. We charge all participants to put in their best efforts so that they will also become national team stars in the nearest future.
It is on record that the national Women’s team, D’Tigress has won the AfroBasket competition for four consecutive years while the team shocked the world two years ago at the basketball World Cup.
At the recently concluded Olympic Games in France, D’Tigress also showed so much guts by beating highly rated teams to earn a berth in the quarterfinal of the event. The team’s coach Rene Wakama, was named the best coach of the global event.
It is also instructive to note that Murjanatu Musa, one of the key players of the team at the Olympics in Paris was the MVP of the 2022 event of Zenith Bank’s National Women’s Basketball League.
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