Milo Basketball conference playoffs dunk off in Enugu.

STATE champions from Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra, Enugu and Cross Rivers will converge in the Coal City for the Atlantic Conference finals of the Milo secondary Schools Basketball Championship.

With Enugu kick starting the conference play-offs of the annual championship, teams expected to feature in the finals will be screened today to ascertain the eligibility of the participants.

With majority of the players that had featured in the championship all finding their way into the national teams, the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium will come alive today with the group matches.

From Enugu, the playoffs will move to the Confluence Conference leg billed for the Indoor Sports Hall of Lokoja in Kogi State on April 24 to May 1, with teams from Adamawa, Borno, Taraba, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kogi featuring.

According to the organisers, the tournament sponsored by Nestle Nigeria Plc will move to the Akure Township Stadium on May 2 to 8 where the Central Conference finals will be played.

Nine teams will feature in the zone and they are Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Kaduna, Gombe, Kebbi, Bauchi, Niger and Ondo.

The Western Conference finals returns to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on May 9 with teams from Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Edo, Abuja and Delta competing for places in the grand finale scheduled to hold in Lagos on June 1 to 6.

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By Olalekan Okusan.
Culled from The Nigerian Guardian.