It turned into a 100 per cent performance for Nigeria’s men’s basketball team, D’Tigers as they won all their three Group B matches of the AfroBasket 2025 qualifiers, setting a pace for the men’s football team, Super Eagles who like D’Tigers, have a bad head start in their World Cup qualifying duels.
D’Tigers went into the last qualifying window for the 2025 AfroBasket qualifying series as the bottom-placed team in Group B.
But they turned things around with their opening defeat of hosts, Libya and followed up with that of Uganda.
Initial front-runners, Cape Verde on Sunday evening became their third victim after inflicting a 77-62 defeat on the island nation.
As in the previous matches, the Nigerian team came from behind to achieve success.
They trailed 26-22 in the first quarter. In the second quarter, they had a massive 26-7 win before Cape Verde stepped up their game in the third quarter, winning 21-13.
Nigeria bounced back in the final quarter, winning 16-8 to achieve the aggregate 77-62 win.
Watch the highlights here: https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/fiba-afrobasket-2025-qualifiers/games/118738-NGR-CPV
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