It is a battle of two former winners of the Zenith Bank/NBBF Women’s Basketball League as First Bank and Dolphins face off in the final match of the league, scheduled for Saturday, September 20, at the National Stadium, Lagos.
The match up happened after record winners of the league, First Bank, defeated defending champions, MFM Women Basketball team, in one of the semifinals of this year’s tournament on Friday.
Despite trailing in three of the four quarters, the nine-time league winners overcame MFM’s offense to secure their passage to the final and a step closer to winning a record 10 titles.
It was a difficult game for First Bank, their experience however counted in the 4th quarter as they defended their lead while running down the time to win the game 47-45 points.
Earlier in the day, Dolphins had defeated Royal Aces 66-54 points to seal a place in the final taking place at the Sports Hall of the National Stadium.
First Bank and Dolphins won all their matches in the group stage, before eliminating their opponent in the semifinals, and with the two sides unbeaten, it promises to be an interesting final.
MFM will be taking on Royal Aces in the third-place game at 1pm, followed immediately by the 4pm blockbuster game between First Bank and Dolphins.
The winner of this year’s tournament will take home with prize money of N7.5m while the second-placed team gets N5m for their efforts. The third-place team will go home with N3m.
Other individual awards will see the MVP, best guard and the rest winning N500,000 each.
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