30 Jul 2023 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket: Nigeria’s D’Tigress to battle Egypt for quarter-final ticket
The Nigeria national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, are set for action against Egypt today (Sunday) at the 2023 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket tournament ongoing in Kigali, Rwanda.
D’Tigress breezed to a huge 69-35 victory over their opponents from Central Africa.
Egypt like Nigeria also defeated DR Congo on Saturday but it was a closer contest in which the North Africans eventually prevailed 89-78.
With this scenario, the winner of Sunday’s tie between Nigeria and Egypt is guaranteed an early berth in the quarter-final.
As explained by FIBA, the teams that finish in the first positions in Groups A, B, C and D, qualify directly for the quarter-finals.
The teams that finish in second and third places of each group will have a second chance to remain in the competition by playing in the Qualification Round to the quarter-finals, where the losing teams will be eliminated.
Though largely made up of new players now, D’Tigress have a good record in previous meetings against Egypt. Nigeria outclassed Egypt 106-72 in Bamako in 2017.
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