NBBF Releases DStv PBL Playoff Grouping

The Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF has released the grouping of the 2013/2014 DStv Premier Basketball League Playoff.

 The release which was made available by the Secretariat of the Nigeria Basketball house in Abuja has the eight teams who qualified from the Atlantic and Savannah conferences of the league divided into two groups of four teams each.

 Eight of the sixteen teams that made to the playoff after a rigorous regular season which span over four months are Islanders, Union Bank, Dodan Warriors and Oluyole Warriors from the Atlantic Conference.

Defending champion Kano Pillars lead three other teams from the Savannah Conference, they includes Mark Mentors, new entrant Gombe Bulls and Plateau Peaks.

 The NBBF League and Technical Committee therefore split the eight teams into two group by giving some privilege to each conference winners Islanders (Atlantic) and Kano Pillars (Savannah) by retaining the fourth placed teams from each conference in same group as the conference winners.

As defending champion Kano Pillars were also granted the franchise of being seeded in the Group-A while Islanders winner of the Atlantic conference was seeded in Group-B.

Other teams to join Kano Pillars in Group-A are the second and third placed sides from the Atlantic conference Union Bank basketball club of Lagos who finished overall runner-up last season and Dodan Warriors basketball club also of Lagos while fourth placed qualifier from the Savannah conference Plateau Peaks completes the roster.

And to join Islanders in Pool-B are Savannah conference second and third teams, Mark Mentors of Abuja and Gombe Bulls of Gombe while fourth placed side from the Atlantic conference Oluyole Warriors basketball club of Ibadan makes up the group.

The first jump-ball according to the release is fixed for Sunday July 13 at the Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.