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UPAC to see five after maiden competition in 2011

February 1, 2018

UDS in action against Wa Polytechnic (red) in the 2016 UPAC qualifiers.

KNUST in in action against University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) at the 2016 UPAC.

VVU Captain Bright Otu-Masi failed to lead histeam past All Nations in the UPAC.

Following the first competition organized in 2011, the Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges (UPAC) Basketball Championship, the fifth edition of the prestigious competition is set to be held later this month.

The renowned tournament designed exclusively for tertiary schools will commence in this month per reports reaching Basketballghana.com

The tournament tips off with regional games to determine representatives at the national competition which takes place in Ghana’s capital Accra.

This year’s competition is bound to be interesting given the high chips at stakes between former winners Accra Technical University (ATU) and University of Ghana (UG).

Both institutions have won the tournament on two occasions with ATU winning the first two editions and UG doing same in 2016 and 2017.

The 2018 edition, the chance to become the record winners of Ghana’s premier tertiary basketball competition beckons.

UG is in line to record a first ever three peat of Championships; the team has bagged its second straight GUSA gold medal in male basketball in January.

By Yaw Adjei-Mintah
@YawMintYM on Twitter