The Basketball Africa League (BAL) has announced that the league’s expanded fourth season will tip off on Saturday, March 9, at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa.
This is the first time South Africa will be hosting the continental showpiece and the first time the league will be hosted in four different countries.
A statement from the BAL indicates that this year’s season will, as usual, feature 12 top clubs from 12 African countries, but this time, they will play a record 48 games in Pretoria, Cairo, Dakar, and Kigali over four months.
According to the breakdown, the 12 teams will be divided into three conferences comprising four teams each.
Every conference will have a 12-game group phase during which each team will face the other three teams in its conference twice.
The inaugural Kalahari Conference group phase will start on Saturday, March 9, and run through March 17 at the SunBet Arena.
The Nile Conference group phase will take place from Friday, April 19 through 27 at Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports Complex in Cairo.
The Sahara Conference group phase will get underway on Saturday, May 4, and end on 12, at the Dakar Arena in Dakar.
The top two teams from each conference and the top two third-placed teams from across the three conferences will travel to Kigali for four seeding games followed by an eight-game, single-elimination playoffs and finals from May 24, through June 1.
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