Basketball tourney from tomorrow in Vijayawada

Vijayawada: The NTR University of Health Sciences would conduct the Andhra Pradesh Inter-University Basketball Tournament for CM's Cup for men and women, according to the University sports secretary E Thirumurthy here on Tuesday.

He said that the event would be held at Dr Pinnamaneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences at Chinnaoutapalli starting from January 3 to 5 and as many as 20 universities are taking part in the three-day event. 

Boarding and lodging for the players, coaches and managers will be arranged by the college. 

The event is held in the league-cum-knockout basis and the umpires and officials will be from Andhra Pradesh Basketball Association. 

The event will be inaugurated on January 3 at 3 pm.

All the arrangements are made by the Siddhartha Academy of General and Technical Education under the supervision of principal P S N Murthy and Administrative officer T V Subba Rao.