Total/NBBF National Division 2 finals get Oct 23 date

The City of Lagos will be agog with basketball activities between October 23rd and 27th as 8 teams converge on the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium for the National Finals of the Total/NBBF Division 2 League.

Secretary of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Chimezie Asiegbu disclosed this after extensive deliberations with the board, the sponsor, participating teams and stakeholders.

“All eyes will be on Surulere where Ondo Kings, Nigerian Prisons (Minna), Nasarawa Golden Touch, Taraba Hurricanes and Bukavu Blinks (Kano) will slug it out with CAMAC (Bayelsa), Brave Hearts and Coal City (Enugu) for the first ever Total/NBBF National Division 2 title,” Asiegbu said.

According to him, the latest decision has been communicated to participating clubs and Zonal offices of the NBBF.

He said arrival date is October 22 for a mandatory pre-match meeting before the Total/NBBF Division 2 League National Finals start on October 23.

For the first time in the history of the developmental league, over 200 clubs from the 36 states participated with 72 teams qualifying for the zonal final.

The conference phase played in Akure and Minna, saw 8 teams picking their ticket to the finals of the league being sponsored by Total Nigeria.