NAIROBI (Kenya) - Kenya Morans have started their training  for the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket Qualifiers Group E Window 1 that throws off in Tunisia February 23-25.

Available are all the local based players named in the provisional squad of 30 with coach Cliff Owuor revealing that the players based outside the country are expected to join the camp as soon as they arrive in the city.

The team is undergoing an intense two training sessions a day-morning and evening - at the Nyayo National Stadium gymnasium under Owuor assisted by Ancetas Wafula and Harrison Kaudia.

It is redemption time for the Kenyans who are going all out to write the wrongs from the 2023 FIBA AfroCan Championship in Luanda, Angola last July .

With good preparations, Owuor is convinced the team placed sixth in their last continental show in the Angolan capital city are on the right track. Morans bagged Silver medal in the inaugural event in Bamako Mali in 2019.

Kenya will face off against host and reigning Africa Champions Tunisia in their opening encounter. They meet 11-time AfroBasket winners Angola on day two before tackling Guinea on the last day.

Tunisia, who remain favorites, were placed fifth in the Luanda show with the hosts who, by all standards, had a poor home showing, finishing in a sad seventh place.

While Morans focus will no doubt be on the two Africa powerhouse, they should not forget that they will find a Guinee side buoyed by the outstanding performance of their junior boys team a handful.

The Guineans defied all the odds and went on to make history by emerging winners in the FIBA U 16 Africa Championship in Monastir, Tunisia.

In an interview with FIBA.basketball, Owuor, said they will push their training a notch higher once the players who are based in the diaspora join the rest in training camp.

“We are not badly off from what I've seen so far. What we have also gathered is that the foreign based players are in good shape as their season is on.” noted Owuor. “If we train well, we should do extremely well in the Window 1.”

The squad announced by the Federation has13 players who are based outside the country with 10 making a return to the team that performed in the Luanda tournament.

Australia-based Desmond Blacio arrived and has been training with the team.

The team played two friendly matches squeezing a 86-83 win against South Sudan based team based in Nairobi.

They also managed a 104-100 triumph over a Nairobi Select Team in a high scoring games. The matches were played at the Nyayo National Stadium gymnasium.

GROUP E
Tunisia
Angola
Guinea
Kenya

FIBA