The wait is over as the Basketball Africa League (BAL) is back for a fourth consecutive season with a number of exciting new additions set to be added to the schedule.
In addition to the Nile Conference (Cairo, Egypt) and Sahara Conference (Dakar, Senegal), Basketball Africa League Season 4 will be held on Saturday, March 9th at the inaugural Kalahari Conference in Pretoria, South Africa. It will open.
Everything you need to know about the Bal Kalahari Conference
It consists of Angola's Petro de Luanda, South Africa's Cape Town Tigers, Burundi's Dinamo Basketball Club, and Morocco's FUS Rabat.
The four teams will play each other twice from March 9th to 17th at Sunbet Arena in Pretoria.
And in order to compete for the coveted title of the Basketball Africa League, teams must finish in the top two in their respective conferences or be among the top two teams in the top three to compete for the Basketball Africa League's coveted title in May at the BK Arena in Kigali. We need to qualify for the playoffs. .
But how did the Kalahari Conference qualify for BAL Season 4?
Unlike Petro de Luanda, who secured qualification to the Basketball Africa League for a record fourth consecutive season by winning the Angola League, Cape Town Tigers, Dynamo and FUS Rabat went through a qualification process run by FIBA (BAL ) to compete in the continent's premier basketball tournament for clubs.
This leaves the Kalahari Conference as the only conference with three teams from the Road to Basketball Africa League.
cape town tigers (South Africa)
The Tigers (5-0), who are playing in the league for the third consecutive year, completed their “Road to the BAL Elite 16” campaign by defeating Dinamo, Paji Basketball Club (Tanzania), NBA Academy Africa and COSPN in the East Division. (Madagascar) and City Oilers (Uganda).
Dinamo Basketball Club (Burundi)
Meanwhile, Dinamo faced an unprecedented journey to qualify for Season 4 of the Basketball Africa League.
After finishing second behind hosts Paji in Group C in Dar es Salaam, the Burundian champions were granted a wild card by FIBA Africa and earned a spot in the Eastern Elite 16.
In addition to their 2 wins and 1 loss in the qualifying round, Dynamo earned the final spot in BAL Season 4 with a 79-78 victory over COSPN in the East Division 3rd place game.
In the process, Dinamo became the first Burundian side to qualify for the Basketball Africa League.
FUS Rabat (Morocco)
FUS Rabat (4 wins, 1 loss) defeated the Central African Republic champions in the group phase, but lost to Bangui Sports Club (Central African Republic) in the final, finishing second in the Western Elite 16.
The Rabat-based team defeated ABC Fighters (Ivory Coast), SLAC (Guinea) and FAP (Cameroon).
FUS Rabat is the second Moroccan team to qualify for the Basketball Africa League after AS Sale.
Basketball Africa League – Kalahari Conference Schedule
Day 1 (Saturday, March 9th)
— Petro de Luanda vs FUS de Rabat, 16:00
— Cape Town Tigers vs Dynamo BBC, 19:00
Day 2 (Sunday, March 10th)
— Dinamo BBC vs FUS de Rabat, 16:00
— Petro de Luanda vs Cape Town Tigers, 19:00
Day 3 (Tuesday, March 12th)
— Dinamo BBC vs Petro de Luanda, 16:00
— Cape Town Tigers vs FUS de Rabat, 19:00
Day 4 (Thursday, March 14th)
— Dynamo BBC vs Cape Town Tigers, 16:00
— FUS de Rabat vs Petro de Luanda, 19:00
Day 6 (Saturday, March 16th)
— Cape Town Tigers vs Petro de Luanda, 16:00
— FUS de Rabat vs Dynamo BBC, 19:00
Day 7 (Saturday, March 16th)
— Petro de Luanda vs Dinamo BBC, 16:00
— FUS de Rabat vs Cape Town Tigers, 19:00
