# 2023–24 Cape Town Tigers season

The 2023–24 season of the Cape Town Tigers was the 4th season in the team's history.
Following their championship in the 2023 Basketball National League (BNL), the Tigers played in the Road to BAL. Under Florsheim Ngwenya as head coach, the Tigers went undefeated (5–0) in the qualifiers, and thus they will play in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) for a third straight season.
In the 2024 BAL season, the Tigers struggled in the Kalahari Conference, which was hosted in South Africa. In the playoffs, entering as the 8th seed, they managed to oust favorites FUS Rabat in the quarterfinals. After losing to Petro de Luanda in the semifinals and the Rivers Hoopers in the third place game, they finished in fourth place, the best result in Tigers' history.
The Tigers were supposed to play in the 2024 BNL season in July 2024, however, they withdrew because of budgetary reasons.

## Players
### BAL

Billy Preston returned to the Tigers after a one year absence from the team, but only played in the conference stage. For the playoffs, the Tigers added former player Dhieu Deing, center Brian Bridgeforth, and Abdou Ndoye. Storm Gilchrist was dropped from the roster before the playoffs.
   The following roster includes all players who appeared in a BAL game for the Tigers between March and June 2024.
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

### Road to BAL roster

   Used from October–December 2023.
The following roster was used during the Elite 16 of the Road to BAL.

## Transactions
### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Date |
| 22 | G/F | Terry Larier | 27 | Free agent | Free agent | Undisclosed | September 26, 2023 |
| 5 | G | Terrance Ferguson | 25 | GTK Gliwice | Free agent | Undisclosed | September 27, 2023 |
| 9 | G | Cartier Diarra | 25 | Free agent | Free agent | Undisclosed | October 6, 2023 |
| – | G | Caleb Magua | 21 | Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Spiders | Free agent | Undisclosed | October 6, 2023 |
| – | PF | Lamine Diarra | 25 | Free agent | Free agent | Undisclosed | October 7, 2023 |

### Out

| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age | Moving to | Moving to | Type | Date | Source |
| 1 | G | | Evans Ganapamo | 28 | Bangui Sporting Club | | End of contract | September 2023 | |
| 41 | F | | Pieter Prinsloo | 31 | Universidad de Concepción | | End of contract | December 2023 | |

## Competitions
### Basketball Africa League
#### Kalahari Conference

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | GF | GA | GD | PCT | Qualification |
| 1 | FUS Rabat | 4 | 3 | 1 | 363 | 295 | +68 | .750 | Advance to playoffs |
| 2 | Petro de Luanda | 4 | 2 | 2 | 360 | 340 | +20 | .500 | Advance to playoffs |
| 3 | Cape Town Tigers (H) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 305 | 346 | −41 | .250 | Advance to playoffs |
| 4 | Dynamo (D) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | Withdrew |
The result of the first game day against Dynamo from Burundi was rescinded, as the team was disqualified after the first gameday.

#### Playoffs
##### Third place
## Player statistics
### BAL

Cape Town Tigers statistics :
| Player | GP | MPG | FG% | 3FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Dylan Whitbread | 8 | 14.9 | .361 | .304 | 1.000 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 4.4 |
| Storm Gilchrist | 3 | 13.6 | .273 | .000 | .286 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 2.7 |
| Nkosinathi Sibanyoni | 8 | 30.8 | .395 | .111 | .385 | 12.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 9.4 |
| Lebesa Selepe | 4 | 10.2 | .143 | .167 | .000 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Billy Preston | 4 | 27.0 | .460 | .500 | .769 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 15.8 |
| Mouhamadou N'doye | 4 | 26.5 | .367 | .000 | .400 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 6.0 |
| Somusa Mthembu | 7 | 5.7 | .333 | .000 | .000 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Lebohang Mofokeng | 6 | 6.9 | .000 | .000 | .500 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Ngor Manyang | 8 | 26.5 | .292 | .259 | .867 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 8.8 |
| Yakhya Diop | 5 | 3.7 | .250 | .000 | .222 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Cartier Diarra | 7 | 35.0 | .432 | .290 | .667 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 13.3 |
| Dhieu Deing | 4 | 33.0 | .308 | .265 | .750 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 15.3 |
| Samkelo Cele | 7 | 33.8 | .389 | .268 | .760 | 4.6 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 21.0 |
| Brian Bridgeforth | 4 | 15.8 | .500 | .000 | .333 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 6.5 |