Basketball: Kaduna, Ilorin set for conference 6 play – offs

With the conclusion of the regular season in the 2017 Kwese Premier Basketball League, action now shifts to the Conference Six scheduled hold in two cities, Kaduna and Ilorin for the Savannah and Atlantic Conferences respectively from August 14 to 19, 2017.
According to fixtures released by the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBFF technical committee, the Indoor Sport Hall of the Ilorin Stadium will host the Atlantic Conference teams while the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Hall in kaduna will host the Savannah Conference.
Teams from the Savannah Conference, according to Mr. Ajibarede Bello of Kwese Premier League Management Committee, will have arrived kaduna Saturday while those from Atlantic are expected to arrive Ilorin today, Sunday.
The technical meeting to usher in the competition proper, he disclosed, holds Sunday, August 13 in Kaduna for the Savannah Conference and Monday, August 14, for Atlantic Conference while the matches will dunk off on Monday for the Kaduna centre and Tuesday for the Ilorin centre.
He said that the teams which qualified after the regular season from the Savannah Conference are Kano Pillars, Gombe Bulls, Mark Mentors of Abuja, Niger Potters of Minna, Defenders of Abuja and plateau Peaks.