GUINEA and SOUTH SUDAN

For a team that first featured at AfroBasket (0-3) in 2017 after a 32 year-year hiatus, sensational Guinea shocked the African basketball hierarchy after beating Egypt -a high-ranked team – host Rwanda, before reaching the Quarter-Finals. 

And the man behind Guinea’s rise is coach Zeljko Zecevic, who coached Egypt at 2009 AfroBasket in Libya. 

South Sudan, on the other hand, couldn’t have had a better debut in the competition. The newest country in Africa returned home with a 3-2 mark and Seventh-Place finish in the bag.

Is it fair to pick Guinea and debutant South Sudan as the 2021 AfroBasket revelations? Probably, yes. 

source：FIBA