D’Tigers, Nigeria’s men basketball team, will today engage Cape Verde in their last match of the AfroBasket qualifiers.
This is coming after they, on Saturday, lost their second match of the campaign, losing to Uganda 72-62.
Nigeria had opened their campaign with an 89-82 defeat to Libya in their opening game on Friday.
D’Tigers only paraded nine players in their loss to Uganda, just like in the game against Libya, as the East Africans came out tops in all four quarters.
Uganda finished the first quarter 12-7 before taking the second quarter 29-19.
In the third quarter, Uganda also emerged tops with 55 points to D’Tigers’ 44 before rounding off with the final score of 72-62 after the fourth quarter.
D’Tigers will close the first qualifying window on Sunday where they will face Cape Verde.
According to commentators, the abysmal performance of the team is expected after the controversies that trailed their preparations with the contingent needing a last minute intervention from the government before they could travel for the mini-championship.
