Rivers Hoopers
15 Nov
Rivers Hoopers Head Coach, Ogoh Odaudu, is optimistic that his team will retain the Nigerian Premier Basketball League (NPBL) title, at the ongoing Final Eight Championship holding in Port Harcourt.
29 May
Giant-killers, Rivers Hoopers of Nigeria, will go into today’s semifinal against Al Ahly Benghazi of Libya knowing that only a win will guarantee them opportunity to become the first West African team to win the Basketball Africa League (BAL).
27 May
Having shrugged off the disappointment of their loss on Saturday to AS Douanes of Senegal in a classification game, Rivers Hoopers will take
13 May
Rivers Hoopers, at the weekend, became the first team from the Sahara Conference to qualify for the Basketball Africa League (BAL) playoffs when they defeated Rwanda’s Armée Patriotique Rwandaise (APR) 78-71 in the first-ever BAL double-overtime game.
7 May
Nigerian champions, Rivers Hoopers, started their campaign in the Sahara Conference of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in dominant fashion, securing two of Senegal and Rwanda’s APR in Dakar at the weekend.
6 May
Five-time Nigerian basketball champions, Rivers Hoopers, reached a historic milestone at the 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) on Sunday by defeating Armée Patriotique Rwandaise (APR) 86-82. With this victory, they became the first Nigerian team to win consecutive games at the BAL. This achievement followed their earlier triumph over AS Douanes, the 2023 BAL runners-up,…
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Will Perry, an American, who recently joined Rivers Hoopers ahead of the Basketball Africa League’s (BAL) Sahara Conference playoff in Senegal, has explained that he chose to come to Nigeria to help change the country’s negative basketball story.
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A group comprising US Monastir of Tunisia, APR of Rwanda and Senegal’s AS Douanes is expected to be as tough as any pairings can be, but Rivers Hoopers Head Coach, Ogoh Odaudu, has said that his team would be ready for the challenges when the Basketball Africa League (BAL) begins.
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Rivers Hoopers, who at the weekend won the Nigeria Basketball League, has promised to put up a better outing at its second foray into the Basketball Africa League (BAL) than they did in 2022.
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