D’Tigress, Nigeria’s female basketball team on Saturday defeated Senegal to win the 2023 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Championship for the fourth consecutive time.
The Nigerian ladies defeated the 11-time African champions 84-74 to claim their sixth championship at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda on Saturday.
The Lionesses have now lost to the D’Tigress in four Afrosbasket finals (2005, 2017, 2019, and 2023).
The victory means that D’Tigress will now compete for a spot at the women’s basketball event of the 2024 Olympics.
The Rena Wakama-led team quickly established their dominance with a nine-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
The Senegalese kept it close in the second quarter with a 24-21 margin for D’Tigress extending their lead to 12 going to the halftime break
The fourth quarter was back and forth between the two best teams of the tournament as Senegal continued to close the gap but D’Tigress took it to win the game by 10 points.
Wakama, who was newly appointed D’Tigress Head Coach, became the first woman to lead a team to the Afrobasket title.
