After some shocking results on day five of the tournament, only two teams, defending champions Angola and Nigeria, remain as the only undefeated nations in the 2009 Afrobasket tournament (click here for Afrobasket discussion) Angola and Nigeria will meet today in the fifth match of the day (schedule). Senegal loses PG, upset by Morocco Senegal [...]

The prelimiary stage of the 2009 African Championships have finished (discuss).  Three nations Angola, Nigeria, and Senegal have moved onto the next round undefeated with three wins each.   Each team will play today in the quarterfinals. Nigeria was led by 24-year old Michael Efevberha’s 23 points, good for second in the field.  Efevberha also had [...]

Two regional basketball championships are going into their third, and final day, of preliminary games today. The 2009 Africa Nations and the Asia Championships are finishing up their round robin play.After day 2, Angola, Nigeria, Senegal, and Cameroon have advanced into the quarterfinals of the 2009 Africa Nations Championships of Basketball The top three teams [...]

Title: Afrobasket 2009 Location: Tripoli, Libya Official Site: http://libya2009.fiba.com Information: The 2009 Africa Nations Basketball Championships, or Afrobasket, starts in less than a week. The 25th Afrobasket (discuss) is being held August 5-15 in Tripoli, Libya. Teams participating include Libya (host), Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Congo, [...]

When we made our “Top Ten International Players to Watch during March Madness” list out, we made a huge mistake by not including USC’s Daniel Hackett in our initial list.  Going into this weekend’s final four, we’ve watched the games and done the  research, in order to followup on our list and re-ranking the players [...]

With the 64 teams matched up, March Madness is less than 12 hours away.  And with that, Interbasket has collected the names of the top ten international players in this year’s field (discuss). It’s a shame that the St. Mary’s Gaels and the Viriginia Tech Hokies didn’t make the tournament, that forced us to leave [...]

A New York Times article chronicles the journey of Alfred Aboya Baliaba, and how the native from Yaounde, Cameroon has elevated his game after coming to the United States, both on the court and off. “I owe everything to basketball,” Aboya told the New York Times in his native French. “Without basketball, I wouldn’t be [...]