PNG aims to better ranking
PAPUA New Guinea aims to improve its ranking in Oceania Basketball.
That will be only possible if they did well at the FIBA under-19 Oceania Basketball Championship which commences at the Vodafone Arena in Suva tomorrow.
"We're currently ranked seventh and we want to better that ranking," team manager Dickson Omaro said.
"During the last Oceania in Melbourne, our men's team finished seventh and the women's side finished fifth. Our target coming into this tournament is to hopefully improve that."
Omaro said despite basketball being a minor sport back home, they had selected the best team. He added most players in the men's team features in the PNG Basketball Elite League.
"We got a good team here. Some of the boys in this team have been playing in our PNG elite league for the past three seasons. Hopefully we will deliver."
PNG is drawn in Pool B with New Zealand, New Caledonia, Tahiti, American Samoa and Fiji. The side takes on New Zealand in their opening pool match on Tuesday.
"We're looking forward to our first game. It's important that we make a good start in our campaign."
The side plays American Samoa in its second game, Tahiti and Fiji in its last pool game on Thursday.
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Emoni Narawa
Sunday, November 30, 2014
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