Fresh off a fifth-place finish at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Canada’s national men’s basketball team will be heading to Saskatchewan for the very first time.
On Tuesday, it was announced that Saskatoon will host a pair of games in the second window of the 2025 FIBA Men’s AmeriCup qualifiers as part of a partnership between Canada Basketball, the Canadian Elite Basketball League and the CEBL’s Saskatchewan Rattlers.
“I was approached to be one of the host cities,” said Rattlers president Lee Genier. “I put my hand up and said, ‘I’d absolutely love to bring this here and have the city be a part of this, the province.’ There was of course a lengthy bid process and we won that.”
Team Canada will face off against the Dominican Republic on November 21 at SaskTel Centre, before battling Mexico three days later on Nov. 24.
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