{"id":59241,"date":"2018-01-18T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=59241"},"modified":"2018-01-18T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:51:35","slug":"30-teams-for-basketball-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/30-teams-for-basketball-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"30 teams for basketball tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 30 basketball teams have confirmed their participation in the second edition of Bravehearts International Basketball Challenge (BIBC) slated from March 1 to 3 in Lilongwe.<br \/>\nSo far, 16 teams have registered in the men\u2019s category whereas 14 are in the women\u2019s section.<br \/>\nForeign teams that have confirmed their participation include defending champions, Harare City Hornets from Zimbabwe, runners-up Napsa from Zambia, HTM Panthers (Kenya), Matero Magic (Zambia), JBC (Zimbabwe), Vixens (Zimbabwe), Mbeya Flames and West Zone 3 (both Tanzania).<br \/>\nHosts Bravehearts will represent Malawi in the tournament alongside Cougars, Crazy Warriors, Bricks and Central Knights.<br \/>\nOrganising Committee Chairperson, Lusungu Banda, said registration closes on February 10.<br \/>\n\u201cMore international teams have shown interest in taking part in the tournament. This is a very welcome development for us and it shows that Malawi basketball is growing. Teams that have not confirmed will leave their spots opened to other teams,\u201d Banda said.<br \/>\nCougars Board Member, Tendai Banda, whose team pulled a shocker last season by beating Hornets, confirmed that they would take part in the event.<br \/>\nBravehearts hosted the first edition of the tournament last year when 10 teams took part in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 30 basketball teams have confirmed their participation in the second edition of Bravehearts International Basketball Challenge (BIBC) slated from March 1 to 3 in Lilongwe. So far, 16 teams have registered in the men\u2019s category whereas 14 are in the women\u2019s section. Foreign teams that have confirmed their participation include defending champions, Harare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59246,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59241\/revisions\/59246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}