TOWSON, Md. – Towson University men's basketball director of student-athlete development Parfait Bitee has been selected to serve as an assistant coach for the Cameroon National Team.
 
Bitee will coach during the fourth FIBA window in the qualifying competition for the World Championships which will be held in China in 2019.
 
"It is an honor to be asked to coach a national team," Bitee said. "A chance like this is always exciting when you have the opportunity to represent your country as an athlete or a coach. I have spent many years playing with the Cameroon National team. Since I have retired from playing and have transitioned to coaching, the national team has asked me to help prepare the team for the competition."
 
Bitee played on the Cameroonian men's national basketball team that won the silver medal at the FIBA Africa Championship in 2007. Bitee has played professionally for seven years in five countries (Morocco, Qatar, France, Belgium and Angola).
 
The Cameroon training camp is in Istanbul, Turkey. Cameroon is in Group A and will open against Angola on Sept. 14. Cameroon finishes the tournament with games against Morocco (Sept. 15) and Egypt (Sept. 16). Other nations in Group A are Tunisia, Chad and Guinea.
 
"This is a great opportunity for Parfait to represent his country and continue to grow as a basketball staffer," Towson men's head basketball coach Pat Skerry said.
 
About the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 African Qualifiers

• The African Qualifiers consist of 12 tournaments played across six windows.
• The First Round sees four groups of four teams each. Teams face one another over the course of two legs.
• Teams from Groups A and C play during the first window (November 20-28, 2017), while Groups B and D sides take to the court during the second window (February 19-27, 2018).
• All 16 teams across the four groups are in action during the third window (June 25-July 3, 2018).
• The top three teams from each group advance to the Second Round, where the 12 qualified teams are divided in two groups (E and F) of 6 teams each.
• The first legs of the Second-Round tournament take place during the fourth window (September 10-18, 2018), with the return legs to follow during the fifth window (November 26-December 4, 2018) and the sixth window (February 20-28, 2019).
• The top two teams from groups E and F and the best third-ranked team will secure their tickets for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019.
• The first-ever 32-team edition of FIBA's flagship competition will take place from August 31-September 15, 2019, in China.