Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 04:32 pm
Nigeria senior male basketball team D’Tigers have emerged second place winner at the finals of the 2017 Afrobasket Championship. This is after the Team was dethroned as African Champions after a 65-77 defeat to host Tunisia
D’Tigers started the game strongly but the hosts Tunisia put up a fight and prevented the men from replicating the heroics of the D’Tigress.
In the final quarter, the Team were trailing by as many as 15 points but they cut the deficit to eight with three minutes, 31 seconds left but they could not complete the comeback and eventually lost by 65 to 77 points.
Captain Ike Diogu who was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player led Nigeria with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Diogu along with teammate Ike Iroegbu were also named in the Afrobasket All-Stars team.
