2025 Afrobasket: D’Tigresses begin title defence against Rwanda

Defending Women’s Afrobasket champions, D’Tigresses of Nigeria will begin their title defence against Rwanda on July 26, the opening day of the competition in Abidjan, Cote d”Ivoire which runs from July 26 to August 3, 2025.
The Nigerian ladies who are also drawn in Group D with Mozambique will play the Mozambicans on Monday, July 28 to decide who tops the group going into the quarter-finals which begin on July 30.
The winners of the four groups will qualify automatically for the quarter-finals while the second and third teams in each group will play a qualifying series to determine who joins the group leaders in the last eight.
Goup A consist of host Cote d”Ivoire, Angola and Egypt, Group B has Mali, Cameroon and South Sudan while Groups C and D have Senegal, Uganda and Guinea as well as Nigeria, Rwanda and Mozambique respectively.
Reigning champions D’Tigress, who are chasing a record-extending seventh AfroBasket title and fifth in a row, will be looking to recover from a quarter-final exit at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.