Tamil Nadu reaffirmed its billing because the favorite within the males’s part with a commanding 102-53 win over Uttar Pradesh within the semifinals of the seventy fifth Senior Nationwide Basketball Championship right here on the Nehru Indoor Stadium, right here on Saturday.
TN will meet Railways within the summit conflict on Sunday after the latter prevailed over Delhi 65-53.
As has been the sample in TN’s matches on this event, the opponent stored the defending champion sincere for some time, however couldn’t maintain it for the complete 40 minutes.
UP took the lead within the first quarter (21-20), however as soon as the host upped the tempo, the previous’s problem fizzled away.
TN got here out of the blocks strongly within the second quarter, rapidly erasing the deficit, led by Arvind Kumar Muthukrishnan.
TOURNAMENT RECAP: Basketball Nationals — Tamil Nadu wins quarterfinal towards Kerala, Delhi reaches final 4
UP tried its greatest via skipper Harsh Dagar and Prince Tyagi to maintain tempo, however its high-risk method failed. The northern aspect transformed simply six of its 35 makes an attempt from exterior the arc.
In distinction, TN was far simpler in that. Muin Bek Hafeez nailed a hat-trick of three pointers heading into the break to present TN a 20-point lead (55-35). Hafeez, who top-scored for TN, additionally transformed all 4 of his two-pointers.
From then on, it was one-way visitors in TN’s approach, with UP managing simply eight factors within the third quarter. Hafeez then fittingly scored a fourth three-pointer to take TN previous 100.
The same script adopted within the girls’s semifinals, the place reigning champion and favorite Indian Railways confirmed its class and comprehensively outplayed Tamil Nadu 88-54 to cruise into the summit conflict. Railways will tackle Kerala within the last.
Outcomes (semifinals):
Girls:
Kerala 87 (J. Jayalakshmi 20, Sreekala Rani 19, Aneesha Cleetus 17, Kavitha Jose 16) bt Madhya Pradesh 58 (Khushi Pal Singh 22, Ananya Maheshwari 12, Manvi Srivastava 12).
Indian Railways 88 (Pushpa Senthilkumar 22, P. Priyanka 18, Okay.B. Harshitha 10) bt Tamil Nadu 54 (Ashmitha 19).
Males:
Indian Railways 65 (Arvinder Singh 13, Sahaij Pratap Singh Sekhon 13, Palpreet Singh Brar 12, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 10) bt Delhi 53 (Ayush Sharma 17, Jeethandar Singh 11).
Tamil Nadu 102 (Muin Bek Hafeez 22, Arvind Kumar Muthukrishnan 18, Pranav Prince 11, A. Anantharaj 10) bt Uttar Pradesh 53 (Prince Tyagi 15, Harsh Dagar 12).
Revealed on Jan 10, 2026