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BAL 2024: Get to know Rivers Hoopers & the seven other teams competing in the playoffs

Rivers Hoopers suffered a 63-57 defeat to Sahara Conference rivals AS Douanes on Saturday in the first-ever seeding games in the history of the Basketball Africa League. The Nigerian champions left it too late at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, in the battle between the third and fourth seeds, which determines the final placement for the playoffs, which begins officially on Sunday, May 26. The...

BAL: D’Tigers Eke lifts Rivers Hoopers past AS Douanes in Sahara Conference

BAL: Rivers Hoopers lose to AS Douanes, suffer first defeat in Sahara Conference

by Ibikunle Salako

10 May 2024

Nigeria's Rivers Hoopers were handed their first defeat in the Sahara Conference of the Basketball Africa League on Thursday, following a 56-54 loss to hosts AS Douanes. With less than four seconds on the clock in the fourth quarter, the King’s Men were undone by a game-winning buzzer-beater by Douanes’ Mike Fofana, with the game on the brink of heading into overtime at the fully-packed Dakar...

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BAL 2024: Rivers Hoopers lose seeding game; to face US Monastir in playoff Q/Finals

BAL: Rivers Hoopers lose to AS Douanes, suffer first defeat in Sahara Conference

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