It looks like Penang is starting year 2020 with the U17 Basketball Championship for the boys and girls category. Well, Penang looks like they are starting off pretty great with this basketball championship.
This time, we get to see 39 teams, where Penang Island represents 14 teams ( 7 boy teams, 7 girl teams), and 19 teams from Penang Mainland (13 boy teams, 6 girl teams). The teams come from a variety of schools and clubs, competing to show, who is the best of the best in the court.
Tan Chee Wan, the Secretary General of Penang Basketball Association mentioned that this tournament will ease the selection of the Penang State Team that will be competing in future tournaments such as the National U17 Championship and Agong Cup.
The tournament will start from the 6th of March 2020 and ends with the epic finals for the boys and girls categories on the 5th of April 2020. The games will be held at Han Chiang High School Basketball Courts throughout the tournament schedule. There will be a total of 52 games to be played at the tournament.
You can view the schedule as below :
*Note: The schedule is in Chinese Language version, we will update the English Language version as soon as we receive it from the organizer.
Here is a look at the press conference that was recently held for the announcement of the basketball tournament:
The event is sponsored by PREMIER , PEAK Sports Malaysia and Jersey Library. The event is organized and managed by Penang Basketball Association.