Kenya men's national basketball team

Kenya national basketball team is the national men basketball team in Kenya. It is operated by the Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF).

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Kenya women's national basketball team.

Kenya Kenya
FIBA ranking98 Decrease 1 (15 September 2023)[1]
Joined FIBA1965
FIBA zoneFIBA Africa
National federationKenya Basketball Association
CoachCliff Owuor
Nickname(s)Morans[2]
FIBA World Cup
Appearances0
AfroBasket
Appearances4
Former logo of the Kenya Basketball Federation

Kenya hosted the 1993 FIBA Africa Championship where the team beat Algeria by a 80-50 blowout and progressed to the semi-final on a point differential, its best performance to date.

History

Basketball in Kenya was started in Mang'u High School in the 1960s by the Marianist Brothers when Brother Frank Russell took over as Principal. He had previous experience in the USA as a sports master and basketball coach in several schools.

Kenya beat Africa's 11-time champion Angola 74–73 in the AfroBasket 2021 qualification in Yaoundé, Cameroon, hence booking a place at the African tournament for the first time since 1993.[2]

In 2020, Kenya hired Australian Liz Mills as head coach, the first female coach in the Morans' history.[3] She helped the team qualify for AfroBasket 2021, its first tournament in 18 years. Mills became the first female head coach to coach at an AfroBasket tournament.

In 2022, Kenya hired former national team coach Cliff Owuor for the 2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.[4] Under Owuor leadership the team went 0-6 in the first round of the qualifiers and failed to progress to the second round.[5] Owuor will continue to lead the team for the 2023 FIBA AfoCan with the team automatically qualifying to the final round due to the team finishing runners up in the 2019 edition.

Kenya also has a u16 boys team and a u18 boys team that are also part of FIBA and the Olympic Committee. Kenyas u18 National Team is led by their team captain from Chicago, Illinois. His name is Iffi Kazmi, a 6'2 Guard that plays for Chi-Prep Sports Academy.

In July 2023 the team will compete in the 2023 AfroCAN tournament. They automatically qualified to the final stage by coming second in the 2019 edition but finished 6th in the final standings. The event was hosted in Angola.[6]

Competitions

FIBA Basketball World Cup
Year Round Position GP W L
Argentina 1950Not a FIBA member
Brazil 1954
Chile 1959
Brazil 1963
Uruguay 1967Did not qualify
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1970
Puerto Rico 1974
Philippines 1978
Colombia 1982
Spain 1986
Argentina 1990
Canada 1994
Greece 1998
United States 2002
Japan 2006
Turkey 2010
Spain 2014
China 2019
Philippines/Japan/Indonesia 2023
Qatar 2027To be determined
Total 0/20909

AfroBasket

  Fourth place  

Year Round Position GP W L
Tunisia 1965Did not qualify
Morocco 1968
Egypt 1970
Senegal 1972
Central African Republic 1974
Egypt 1975
Senegal 1978
Morocco 1980
Somalia 1981
Egypt 1983
Ivory Coast 1985Classification round12th606
Tunisia 1987Did not qualify
Angola 1989Preliminary round11th404
Egypt 1992Did not qualify
Kenya 1993Fourth place4th514
Algeria 1995Did not qualify
Senegal 1997
Angola 1999
Morocco 2001
Egypt 2003
Algeria 2005
Angola 2007
Libya 2009
Madagascar 2011
Ivory Coast 2013
Tunisia 2015
Tunisia Senegal 2017
Rwanda 2021Round of 169th413
2025To be determined
TotalFourth place4th19217

African Games
  • 1987 – 4th

FIBA AfroCan

  Runners-up  

Year Round Position GP W L
Mali 2019Runners-up2nd541
Angola 20236th place6th523
Total2/22nd523

Team

Current roster

Roster for the AfroBasket 2021.[7]

Kenya men's national basketball team roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.NameAge – Date of birthHeightClubCtr.
PG 4 Situma Khaemba 29 – (1991-09-06)6 September 1991 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Ulinzi Warriors Kenya
PG 5 Griffin Ligare 36 – (1985-05-19)19 May 1985 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Nairobi City Thunder Kenya
SG 6 Erick Mutoro 29 – (1992-05-29)29 May 1992 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ulinzi Warriors Kenya
G 7 Victor Bosire 32 – (1988-12-31)31 December 1988 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Ulinzi Warriors Kenya
PF 8 Fidel Okoth 24 – (1996-10-24)24 October 1996 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Strathmore University Kenya
SF 9 Tylor Ongwae 30 – (1991-07-15)15 July 1991 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Bakken Bears Denmark
SF 10 Albert Odero 24 – (1997-06-21)21 June 1997 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys United States
SF 11 Valentine Nyakinda 29 – (1992-03-16)16 March 1992 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Kenya Ports Authority Kenya
C 12 Desmond Owili 33 – (1988-02-22)22 February 1988 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Kilsyth Cobras Australia
PF 13 Ronald Gombe 29 – (1992-07-21)21 July 1992 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) CB Villarrobledo Spain
C 14 Tom Wamukota 27 – (1993-09-28)28 September 1993 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) Patriots BBC Rwanda
PF 15 Okall Koranga 31 – (1990-03-18)18 March 1990 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Kampala International University Uganda
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Kenya Collins Gaya
Legend
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 24 August 2021

Depth chart
Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Tom Wamukota Desmond Owili
PF Fidel Okoth Okall Koranga Ronald Gombe
SF Albert Odero Valentine Nyakinda
SG Tylor Ongwae Erick Mutoro
PG Victor Bosire Griffin Ligare Situma Khaemba

Head coach position
  • Kenya Ronnie Owino – 1993, 2001–02, 2007, 2010
  • Kenya Francis Ngunjiri – 2013
  • Cliff Owuor – 2020[8]
  • Australia Liz Mills – 2021[9]

Past rosters

Team for the 2015 Afrobasket Qualification:[10]

Kenya men's national basketball team roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.NameAge – Date of birthHeightClub
Philip Otieno Ameny –
Situma Khaemba –
Ariel Okall Okoll Koranga –
Kevin Kigotho Macharia –
James Maina Mwangi –
Ali Salim Mzee –
Valentine Onyango Nyakinda –
Tobias Onyango Nyindha –
Victor Otieno Odendo –
James Kithinji –
David Amiani –
William Ochieng Otieno –
Allan Christopher Odongo Ouma –
Joseph Ouma –
Blacio Owuor Owili –
Ancetas Samuel Wafula –
Noel Yoni Were Wanambiro –
Griffin Ligare Wisyuba –
Head coach
  • Kenya Francis Ngunjiri
Legend
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 19 August 2015

See also

References
  1. "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  2. Top coach relishes leading Kenya in AfroBasket Championship Maxwell Wasike (Kenya's Watching), 3 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. Ayieko, Odindo. "Just who is Liz Mills, Kenya Morans' first-ever female coach?". The Standard. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  4. "Cliff Owuor returns as Kenya Morans head coach".
  5. "Kenya at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 African Qualifiers".
  6. "FIBA AfroCAN 2023".
  7. "Team Roster Kenya". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  8. DANN OWERRE (10 September 2020). "Coach Owuor pursues France-based Awich ahead of Afro-basket". The Star. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  9. "Just who is Liz Mills, Kenya Morans' first-ever female coach? : The standard Sports".
  10. "Kenya | 2015 Afrobasket | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM".
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