Source: VINO
CBC Basketball Tournament 2014 BVI vs USVI. Photo: BVIOC
The BVI Basketball Federation will be hosting the 2015 Senior Men’s and Women’s Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships for the second consecutive year.
The BVI will be entering a Women’s team in the CBC tournament for the first time, as according to Keith ’88’ Malone, “The time is right.”
Malone also noted that the coaching staff is being assembled and the squad will include a lot of the girls who recently played in the St Thomas/St John’s Inter Scholastic Tournaments as well as Tamara and Tafar Phillips.
Other more experienced players are being encouraged to participate in what is expected to be a very tough baptism for the senior women’s team.
The 2015 CBC Championships for women will run from June 8 – 13, 2015 in Tortola, Virgin Islands and will have the participation of the national teams of Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the US Virgin Islands.
The Men’s Championships will run from June 15 – 21, 2015. Participating national teams include Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and the US Virgin Islands.
Results of the Draw for the Women:
Group A: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, US Virgin Islands.
Group B: Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Guyana, Jamaica.
Results of the Draw for the Men:
Group A: Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, US Virgin Islands.
Group B: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Guyana, Suriname.
In the draw, the teams were divided into two groups that will play round-robins within the group. The top two teams from each group will qualify for a semi-final where the 1st place of Group A will play the second place of Group B and vice versa. The winners of the Semi-Finals will advance to the Finals.
At the last CBC Championship held in Tortola, BVI in 2014, the Bahamas won the Men’s Championship and Jamaica won the Women’s Championship. Both teams qualified for the 2014 Centrobasket Championship held in Mexico.
