Live stream: How to watch Basketball Australia U20's & Ivor Burge National Championships
It’s finals time at Basketball Australia’s top junior tournament in Ballarat - and there are some great match-ups to savour. Click on the links inside this story to take you through to the action.
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The Basketball Australia Under-20s and Ivor Burge National Championships are the ultimate springboard to success.
The next generation of Australian basketball will be on show as the championships takes over Ballarat for six days from Tuesday, January 30.
For the second-straight year the tournament, which is the first in five national junior pathways events on the Basketball Australia calendar, will be exclusively LIVE STREAMED on KommunityTV and across all News Corp Australia mastheads.
Every match from the tournament will be broadcast, including all matches in the Ivor Burge men’s and women’s tournaments for basketballers with an intellectual disability.
HOW TO WATCH
There are two main ways to watch the Under-20 and Ivor Burge National Championships in 2024.
KommunityTV will run each court’s live stream in an individual story each day of the tournament. The links for those stories appear above.
Each day’s stream story will also contain the replays from the same day.
Alternatively you can head to www.kommunitytv.com.au, and use the video player at the top of the site to watch all the action live and scroll through the most recent replays.
Make sure to check out the streaming schedule to find out when your team is playing.
Only News Corp full digital subscribers will have exclusive access to watch the action from the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre. Click here to sign up now before the tournament.
CHECK OUT THE LIVE STREAM SCHEDULE
WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR
Western Australia will be determined to go back-to-back after a dominant win over NSW in last year’s gold medal men’s match, but after a high turnover in athletes it will not be easy for the team in yellow and black.
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New South Wales have named a strong line-up as they aim to improve on their silver medal from last year’s tournament, headlined by BA Centre of Excellence duo James O’Donnell and Josh Dent.
The NBA Global Academy, who suffered a few shock losses during last year’s tournament, will bring another strong line-up, which features Victorian young gun Dash Daniels, the brother of New Orleans Pelicans star rookie Dyson Daniels.
Their squad also features several exciting international talents including rising New Zealand centre Julius Halaifonua and Qatari international Hamad Mousa.
Australian junior and Sydney Flames development player Isla Juffermans, who was voted tournament MVP last year, will return for the sky blues as they aim to win back-to-back women’s gold medals.
The towering centre will again be a key to the NSW attack, and will be joined by exciting prospects Kira-May Filemu and Opal Bird.
Far North Queensland duo Teyannah Bond and Monique Bobongie will be determined to prove they can drive Queensland to go one better than last year, while both South Australia and Victoria will bring strong squads.
Originally published as Live stream: How to watch Basketball Australia U20's & Ivor Burge National Championships
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