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The Senegal national basketball team (French: Équipe de basketball du Senegal) represents Senegal in men's international basketball and it is overseen by Federation Senegalaise de basketball, five time a gold medallist (in 1968, 1972, 1978, 1980, and 1997), a six time silver medallist, and a four time bronze medallist at the FIBA Africa Championship.
After going undrafted in the 2022 NBA draft, on 3 November 2022, Badji was named to the opening night roster for the Wisconsin Herd after signing an Exhibition 10 contract. [ 9 ] On 18 November 2022, the Portland Trail Blazers announced that they had signed Badji to a two-way contract . [ 10 ]
Since 2022, the academy has a program called BAL Elevate with the Basketball Africa League (BAL), that allows each BAL team to select an academy player to feature on its roster during the season. [4] A year earlier, in 2021, Mohab Yasser became the first academy player to play in the BAL and also the first player to win the league championship.
AS Douanes was established in 1980, [3] as the basketball section of the Senegalese customs organisation. [4] In 1998, the team won its first national championship. They won two more championships in 2007 and 2008, followed by six championship in the 2010s.
The team plays in the Nationale 1 and has won the league five times, its last being in 2021. Established in 1956, the team was founded as a basketball club and later became a multisports club, including football, athletics and more. DUC plays in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in the 2022 season, having qualified as national champions.
The 2022 Nationale 1 season was the 55th season of the Nationale 1 (NM1), the top-tier basketball league in Senegal. DUC were the defending champions, having won the 2021 season. The champions of this season qualified directly for the 2023 BAL season. AS Douanes won its 10th national title, after defeating DUC in the finals. It was the fourth ...
Chomche was born in Bafang, in the West Province of Cameroon, and picked up basketball at age 11 due to peer pressure because he was the tallest kid in his neighborhood. One year later, he joined the NBA Academy Africa in Saly , Senegal and started studying English. [ 1 ]
He was on the roster that made it to the 2022 BAL Finals, where they lost to US Monastir. [5] He averaged 4.3 points and 2 rebounds in the 2022 BAL season. [6] In the same year, in November 2022, Darlan and the NBA Academy played in the Road to BAL 2023 where they faced professional teams from across the continent. He averaged a team-high 23 ...