Kenya Morans land pool A ahead of AfroCan

National men’s basketball team Kenya Morans embark on their training this weekend ahead of the second edition of the FIBA AfroCan tournament set for 8 to 16 July in Angola.

The silver medalists from the inaugural edition held in 2019 and won by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been placed in pool A against Gabon and the winner of the playoff between Zone 2's Guinea and teams from Zones 3.

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Hosts Angola will face Mali and a team to be awarded a wildcard in Group B.

Group C will be complete with Morocco and the winners of Zones 1 and 5 qualifiers. Reigning champions DRC were drawn in Group D alongside Mozambique and Cameroon.

Algeria and Tunisia will fight for Zone 1’s solo ticket for the Final Round, next week while five teams will gather in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, later this month to find Zone 5's representative for the Angola showpiece.

Morans go to battle with a tough task of proving their 2019 exploits were no fluke even, as they face (in the group stage) a Gabon side ranked 25th in the continent, seven places below Kenya on the FIBA rankings last updated on 27 Feb 2023.

Guniea, 13th on the continental rankings, goes to battle against the winner of the zone that hosts the number one African team, Nigeria who are likely to trump their opponents for the opportunity to feature in the playoffs.

The winners of each group will advance directly to the Quarter-Finals while the teams that finish second and third after the Group Phase will play the qualification round for the Last Eight.

The winners of the qualification round will qualify for the Quarter-Finals.

Winners of the Quarter-Final advance to Semi-Finals, while the losing teams will play the Classification Round games for the 5th to 8th places. The classification game for Third-Place and the Final will be played on the last day of competition set as 16 July 16.