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| The 2018/19 National Basketball League season got underway this past weekend and the opening round of action did not disappoint... |
Defending National Basketball League (NBL)
champions Lerotholi Polytechnic got their title defence off to a bright start
with a double dose of wins on the opening weekend of the 2018/19 NBL season.
Fokothi started things off with a
nail-baiting 40-39 win over NUL Rovers in the season opening game on Friday
night at Lehakoe, a game which was closer than expected.
Lerotholi then faced league new boys
Tigers on Saturday but this time things were not as tight as the champions
demolished their opponents 83-43.
The wins put Lerotholi on top of the
A-Division’s Southern Conference after the first weekend of action as the only
team to play twice and win twice.
NUL Rovers also played twice and they
recovered from their Friday night disappointment against Lerotholi to wallop
Roma 52-30 on Saturday at NUL.
The most high-profile fixture of the
weekend was a Northern Conference clash on Sunday between Lichocha Shooting
Rifles – runners up in the last two NBL Finals – and 2016 champions KTA All-Stars.
The game wasn’t close, however, as
Lichocha outclassed KTA 54-35, the first major result in a season promises to
be a fascinating one.
This year the fast-growing NBL has its most-ever
registered teams in the league – 14.
The consequence is that the NBL’s
top-flight A-Division has been divided into two streams, the North and South
conferences.
Each conference has
seven teams and at the end of the season the top two sides from each stream
will advance to the four-team championship playoffs to determine the 2018/19
NBL champion.
NBL A-Division
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Southern Conference
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Northern Conference
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Lerotholi
Polytechnic
NUL Rovers
Tigers
Bokamoso South
Mafeteng
Roma
BBH
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Lichocha
Shooting Rifles
KTA All-Stars
Botho
University
Limkokwing
Bokamoso North
T98
Khubestate
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Meanwhile, in the Ladies League there
were weekend wins for Bokamoso North and Lerotholi while NUL Rovers and
Lichocha claimed wins by forfeit after their opponents (Roma and KTA
respectively) failed to show up for their games.
National
Basketball League Weekend Results:
Friday
at Lehakoe:
Lerotholi Polytechnic 40-39 NUL Rovers
Saturday
at NUL:
A-Division:
Khubestate 40-63 T98
Limkokwing University 27-52 Bokamoso
North
NUL Rovers 52-30 Roma
BBH 0-20 Bokamoso South (BBH lost by
forfeit)
Ladies Division:
Limkokwing 11-42 Bokamoso North
NUL Rovers 20-0 Roma (Roma lost by
forfeit)
Sunday
at Lehakoe:
A-Division:
Lichocha Shooting Rifles 54-35 KTA
All-Stars
Tigers 43-83 Lerotholi Polytechnic
Ladies Division:
Lichocha Shooting Rifles 20-0 KTA
All-Stars (KTA lost by forfeit)
Tigers 37-38 Lerotholi Polytechnic
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