Champions, Dolphins Women Basketball Club, will begin the defence of the NBBF/Zenith Bank Women Basketball Premier League title they won last year with a game against First Deep Water tomorrow at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. It is the first phase of the season, which is dunking off with the Atlantic Conference.

The opening game of the day will see IGP Queens taking on new entrants, Victoria Queens, with the game between the record winners of the league, First Bank and Royal Aces taking place in the afternoon, same as the battle between two-time winner of the league, MFM and Bayelsa Blue Whales.

With the arrival of teams scheduled for tomorrow, the first phase of the Atlantic Conference will hold from tomorrow to August 22, with the biggest game of the opening phase seeing MFM taking on First Bank in the evening of the day.

Meanwhile, the Savannah Conference will tip off two days later on Tuesday, August 18, with Air Warriors taking on Kada Angels in the first game of the day.

Other games for the opening day of the Savannah Conference are Nasarawa Amazons against Ham Warriors, Titans and Nigeria Customs, as well as the last battle between Aso Sky Queens and Plateau Rocks.

Unlike the Atlantic Conference, the Savannah Conference, holding at the Basketball Arena, Rayfield, Jos, will end its first phase on August 24.

Dolphins defeated MFM in the final of the 2025 edition to end the reign of Olukoya girls, who won the title back-to-back in 2023 and 2024.