Nigeria’s senior men’s basketball team, the D’Tigers Sunday returned to winning ways as they outdunked Cape Verde in the FIBA 2027 World Cup qualifier at Salle Multipurpose hall in Rades, Tunisia.
They had earlier lost their first two games to group leaders, Cameroon and South Sudan and dropped to fifth position in the group where only the first two teams would qualify automatically for the World Cup.
In Sunday’s game, the Nigerians won the first three quarters, 23-9, 29-26, 24-19 but lost the last quarter by six points, 24-30 to end at 100-84.
D’Tigers game leader, Caleb Agada had a better efficiency of 33 percent to Cape Verde’s Ivan Almelda with 31 percent but Agada fell short in points amassed with 26 points to Almelda’s 34.
The victory now shoots Nigeria to third on the group E table with 14 points from nine games pending the results of the other teams in the group.
In a group F game also decided,
Congo DR beat Egypt 77-75 (22-18, 20-21, 18-14, 17-22).
