D’Tigress beat Senegal to claim historic 4th consecutive Afrobasket title

D’Tigress beat Senegal to claim historic 4th consecutive Afrobasket title

 Nigeria’s D’Tigress have defeated Senegal in the final of
the 2023 women’s Afrobasket championship.

 

The Rena Wakama-led ladies defeated the Senegalese 84-74 at
the BK Arena, Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday.

 

The victory makes Nigeria only the second African country
ever to win the women’s Afrobasket title four times in a row.
FOUR IN A ROW!!! Queens of Africa!Congrats to D’Tigress! pic.twitter.com/GNtaVbdqIN— D’Tigers | Nigeria Basketball (@NigeriaBasket) August 5, 2023Wakama also became the first female coach to win the
competition since its inception in 1966.

 

On Thursday, the Nigerians whitewashed Rwanda, the hosts,
79-48 in the semi-final to book a place in the finale.

 

The coach maintained the starting five of the previous game;
Amy Okonkwo, Palla Kunaiyi-Akpanah, Elizabeth Balogun, Sarah Ogoke and Blessing
Ejiofor.

 

The game against Senegalese was a rematch of the final of
the 2019 Women’s Afrobasket and the semi-final of the 2021 edition — Nigeria
won on both occasions.

 

D’Tigress never looked like faltering from the history lane
and quickly established a 19-10 lead in the first quarter.

 

The Nigerians increased the lead with more intensity in the
second quarter and were ahead by 43-31 by halftime.

 

The Senegalese returned from the break rejuvenated, and they
clawed back the lead to 62-57 at the end of the third quarter.

 

The final quarter was fiercely contested, but D’Tigress dug
in to secure a 10-point victory to etch their name in African basketball
history.

 

Only Senegal, who won the biennial competition
uninterruptedly from 1974 to 1981, have achieved a four-peat in the history of
Women’s Afrobasket.

 

D’Tigress won the last three editions of the Women’s
Afrobasket and remain unbeaten in every African competition.

 

The team won the 2017 trophy in Bamako and claimed the
second title in Dakar, Senegal, in 2019, before completing the three-peat in
Cameroon in 2021.

 

  

Source: D’Tigress beat Senegal to claim historic 4th consecutive Afrobasket title

 - NigerianEye
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