Head coach of Nigeria and Africa champions Club for Women, First Bank Basketball Club of Lagos, Adewumi Aderemi, is looking forward to another intensive rivalry between his team and NBBF/ Zenith Bank Womens League runner-up First Deepwater Basketball Club of Lagos when the new season dunks off.
First Deepwater, who in her first season in the elite womens basketball league last year, ended the Elephant Girls seven-year unbeaten run in the local scene, winning 80-72 at the National Stadium, Lagos, on the last day of the 2009 season,.
But the highly experienced First Bank got its pound of flesh back when it walloped First Deepwater by 88-48 in the quarter-finals of the FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women in Benin Republic, on its way to winning the title.
Coach Aderemi believes the rivalry is good for the development of the game in Nigeria.
He said, 'The First Deepwater issue last year was very good; I liked the way they took the league by storm, challenging every team. We witnessed one of the best leagues last season and because of them, the standard of the womens league was very high last year. Its a welcome development.
'What helped us (First Bank basketball club) was that we won the first and second phase, which put us in good stead to win the league, and that is exactly what we are going to do this year again, the coach popularly called 'owolo' said.
On preparations for the new season, Coach Aderemi said his team was not under pressure to defend its titles in 2010
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