Tag: FIBA
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D’Tigress: Paris Games’ showing helps Nigeria to 8th in FIBA rankings
Nigeria has jumped four places in the latest edition of the FIBA World Ranking Women, moving into the top 10 of the rankings and into eighth place. Nigeria, represented by D’Tigress, the senior national women basketball team, had entered the history books few weeks ago at the Paris Olympic Games.
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D’Tigers slump in recent FIBA rankings
Nigeria’s senior men’s basketball team D’ Tigers has dropped four places in the latest FIBA ranking released on Friday.
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Col. Samuel Ahmedu appointed in the Executive Committee of FIBA Africa
Renowned sports administrator and a member of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Retired Colonel Samuel Ahmedu has been appointed into the highest office is the slamming and dunking game on the continent, FIBA Africa Executive Committee.
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Nigeria’s D’Tigress move up seven places in FIBA rankings
Nigeria’s D’Tigress has moved up seven places in the latest International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Rankings for women. The rankings for the month of September were released by FIBA on Wednesday night.
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U.S lose FIBA rankings’ top spot after 12 years
U.S men’s basketball team have been knocked off the top of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) world rankings for the first time in over 12 years, with Spain taking over. Spain, who have enjoyed success in recent years including winning the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 and FIBA EuroBasket 2022, lead the November 2022 table…
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Angola dent D’Tigers’ 2023 FIBA World Cup hopes
Nigeria’s senior male national basketball team, D’Tigers, on Sunday in Abidjan suffered a 67-70 loss to Angola in a 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifier. Tthe match played at the Palais des Sports Treichville saw D’Tigers having a sluggish start to the game.
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D’Tigers lose to Cape Verde, blame it on high turnover
D’Tigers stand-in head coach, Alan Major, says the team must take care of the ball when they face Mali in their next game on Saturday. The Nigerian senior male national basketball team lost 70-79 points to Cape Verde on Friday at the on-going 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifiers The coach noted that the team’s turnover…
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2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup: D’Tigress accuse “leaders” of corruption, greed as Fiba threatens more sanctions
Nigeria’s women basketball team D’Tigress, have again expressed their displeasure over the ban placed on the sport by the Nigerian government, which they say is as a result of corruption and greed on the part of certain “leaders”. This is coming after the sport’s world governing body, Fiba, invited Mali to replace Nigeria at the…
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Basketball Worldcup: FIBA replaces Nigeria with Mali
The Nigerian female basketball team, D’Tigress have been thrown out of the 2022 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup after the Federal Government withdrew all teams from international competitions. Recall that president Buhari led -Federal Government suspends all international basketball competition for two years.
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FIBA threatens to sanction Nigeria over basketball ban
World basketball governing body FIBA has warned that Nigeria faces sanctions following the Federal Government’s withdrawal of Basketball teams from all international competition for 2 years. FIBA stated this in a letter addressed to factional Nigeria Basketball Federation president Musa Ahmadu-Kida signed by Jaime Lamboy, Head of Legal, FIBA and dated May 18, 2022.