Tag: AfroBasket
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D’Tigress begin AfroBasket title defence against Mozambique
D’Tigress, Nigeria’s senior women national basketball team, will begin their 2021 FIBA AfroBasket Women’s Championship campaign against Mozambique on Saturday in Yaounde, Cameroon. The team will then face Angola on Monday, hoping to top their group to give an indication of their seriousness to maintain their rating as the continent’s topmost side. Thirteen players and…
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D’Tigers crash out of AfroBasket after defeat to Uganda
Nigeria’s D’Tigers on Tuesday ended their 2021 FIBA AfroBasket campaign on a sour note with a 68-80 loss to lowly-rated Uganda in Kigali, Rwanda. The Nigerian senior men’s basketball team who were the competition’s champions in 2015 had qualified for this Qualification to Quarter-Finals fixture by finishing second from Group C. But at the Kigali…
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Afrobasket 2021: Mike Brown confident of victory against Uganda
Mike Brown, the Head Coach of the senior national men’s basketball team, D’tigers on Monday, said that he was banking on his team’s offensive prowess at the ongoing Afrobasket Championship in Kigali, Rwanda, to progress in the tournament. He said this at a news conference held in Kigala monitored through the Afti asket.ckn website. Brown…
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AfroBasket: D’Tigers lose to Cote d’Ivoire, fail to gain automatic quarter-final ticket
D’Tigers on Sunday lost 68-77 to group leaders Cote d’Ivoire to finish second and fail to secure Group C’s automatic quarter-final ticket at the ongoing 2021 FIBA AfroBasket in Rwanda. They however have a second chance of qualification for the quarter-finals, with their final group position earning them a quarter-final qualifying fixture on Tuesday. In…
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2021 AfroBasket: D’Tigers beat Mali 81-73 in opening group game
Nigeria’s senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, on Wednesday beat Mali 81-73 in their opening match of the ongoing 2021 AfroBasket Championship in Kigali, Rwanda. The Nigerian side, who were without most of their NBA stars paraded at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, got off to a good start winning the first quarter 28-12. Captained by Stephen…
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Dogara applauds D’Tigress for FIBA AfroBasket victory, qualifying for World Cup Tournament
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has hailed the national female basketball team, D’Tigress, on their victory over Senegal in the 2017 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket tournament in Mali and for qualifying for the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Spain. The Speaker praised the doggedness of the team, for putting up…