BAL 2025: Odaudu Optimistic Of Rivers Hoopers Improved Performance

BAL 2025: Odaudu Optimistic Of Rivers Hoopers Improved Performance 

Sampson Adedeji 

After their qualifications for the 2025 African Basketball League, Rivers Hoops coach Ogoh Odaudu has stated they are going to continue from where they left off in the last edition, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The Nigerian representative was a big revelation in the 2024 edition of the competition, only missed the final mere whiskers.

Hoopers qualified for the competition with victory over Lagos-based Hoops and Read 71-54 to claim the 2024 NBBF Final 8 title.

" One of the things we are going to stick with is continuity. You find out that every BAL season, teams come with entirely different teams than they had the previous one".

“We are going to try and limit that as much as possible and come back with almost the same set of people that we used to prosecute the last campaign. It’s not guaranteed that we are sure of them, but we are in talks with them already,” Odaudu said. The only people we are sure of right now are Peter and Kelvin who came to help us qualify".

" We don’t want to be seen as the usual thing that every time we go to the continent it’s just to come to participate and not to compete,” Odaudu said.

“We tried to do something different last year and we achieved that. If not for a few mistakes, we would have been in the final.

“We want to go there now and make sure that what we do is entirely different. That we are here to stay and it is not just a fluke thing, one season in, one season out", he told ESPN.