THE University of Worcester basketball team are set to host their counterparts from Edinburgh tomorrow (4pm) in the British Universities Basketball Championships - with a place in the final eight at stake.

The Worcester side are bidding to win the title for the third year running and, if victorious tomorrow, they will go to the finals, which are being held at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield on March 9, 10 and 11.

Several Worcester Wolves players, who are on academic sports scholarships at the university, will feature in the game, which is open for all basketball enthusiasts to go along and support the students.

The Wolves players will be joined on the court by some of the country's most exciting young players who have opted to study in Worcester -the country's top university basketball academy - in a bid to develop their game.

Worcester's director of basketball Mick Donovan said: "It is a massive afternoon for the academy and we always look forward to competing with our rivals from Scotland.

"They are always hard-fought, yet good-spirited events.

"We realise that there are some really strong teams left in the competition, yet to earn a British championship title in any sport you clearly have to work hard for that right.

"There has been a great deal of hard work in previous years in gaining our present status and we are desperate to keep it.

"We would welcome all members of the community to cheer on their university team."

The game is followed by the university's second team playing against the London School of Economics' first team in the National Shield quarter-finals at 6pm.