President Muhammadu Buhari Received the African Champion, National Basketball Team, D'Tigress at the state House today.

President Muhammadu Buhari Received the African Champion, National Basketball Team, D'Tigress at the state House today. 

D'Tigress made Nigeria Pround in Mali, beating the defending champion, Senegal in the African Woman Basketball Competition.  D’Tigress defeated Senegal 65-48 in the final of the tournament played on Sunday in Bamako, Mali.
They had beaten hosts Mali 48-47 in the semi-final on Saturday, to secure one of the two FIBA World Cup tickets available to Africa.
However, D’Tigress started the final game on a bad note, losing the first quarter 12-18 to the Senegalese, who failed to keep up in the second quarter.
Nigeria took it 21-10, to end the first half with 33-28 points.
Sam Vincent’s ladies dominated the third quarter winning 15-7, while the last quarter seemed very tough for both sides as Nigeria led with 17 points margin against Senegal’s 13 points to end the game with 65-48 points in favour of D’Tigress.

 The Nigerians will be looking forward to same impressive performance in the World Woman Basketball Competition. we pray this will be the beginning of success in Nigeria Basketball Team. 

President Muhammadu Buhari: The entire nation appreciates and celebrates your victory — the first in 12 years — and qualification for the 2018 World Cup in Spain.