The Nile Conference of the

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is played from 26 April to 6 May 2023 and will be played in the

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in 6th of October,

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. The four highest-ranked teams advance to the 2023 BAL Playoffs where they will each meet a team from the Nile Conference in the quarter-finals.

Standings

Games

26 April

Al Ahly won their inaugural game in the BAL behind debutant Nuni Omot who scored 21 points for his team.

27 April

29 April

Petro de Luanda defeated Ferroviário by a wide margin, with twelve of Petro's players scoring at least three points. In the second game of the day, Al Ahly lead by as much as 33 points in the third quarter before a late rally by the City Oilers. The Oilers managed to cut the lead to 2 points with 2.6 seconds remaining in the game.

30 April

Ferroviário da Beira had a lead of as much as 22 points before losing their advantage and trailing 95–92 in the fourth quarter. Point guard Will Perry of Beira scored 41 points, tying the league's single-game scoring record and setting a new record for most three-point field goals in a game with 9 three pointers. Four of Perry's three point field goals came in the fourth quarter, and gave Beira the advantage to improve their record to 1–2 and stay in the race for a playoff spot. In their second meeting in two seasons, Petro de Luanda blew out the Cape Town Tigers by as much as 39 points. Five players scored in double digits for Petro, while Josh Hall led Cape Town in scoring with 14 points.

2 May

3 May

Petro de Luanda became the first club from the Nile Conference to qualify for the 2023 BAL Playoffs, as their bench outscored SLAC's bench 44–2.

5 May

In the match-up between Petro de Luanda and Al-Ahly, the Angolan champions won the game on a buzzer-beating tip-in by Gerson Gonçalves. Carlos Morais hit eight three-pointers, just one shy of the league record.

6 May

The Cape Town Tigers qualified for their second straight playoffs following their win against the City Oilers. Before the last game of the Nile Conference, SLAC was already eliminated because of the result earlier that day.

References

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