D'Tigress Retained Her FIBA AfroBasket Women Championship, Recap.

D'Tigress, source

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Nigeria's women national basketball team D'Tigress retained her Federation Internationale de Basketball(FIBA) basketball crown by defeating host and last year's finalist Senegal again in the final played on Sunday, D'Tigress outscored Senegal 60-55 to defend the title she won in Mali 2years ago, her 2nd successive defence having also defended her 2003 triumph with a 2005 win on home soil Abuja, totalling her bi-annual African show-piece title to 4.

D'Tigress were up against the capacity crowd(15,000) who came out in numbers to support their team Senegal, however, just like the Tiger, the D'Tigress were fearless with their approach and took a 1st-quarter 14-10 lead, they followed that up with a 2nd and 3rd quarter leads 18-14 & 16-13 respectively, totally a 48-37 lead going into the 4th and final quarter. Disappointedly, D'Tigress might have let the home crowd gotten inside their head, lost composure and allowed Senegal to level 54 all with less than 3 minutes left in the last quarter, remarkably, D'Tigress regained confidence and the lead, crawled away with a 60-55 point win, to emerged as the champion for their 4th ever title in the 26th edition of the tournament, some way behind tournament most successive nation Senegal(11 titles).

2nd place team Senegal, source

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En route to the final, D'Tigress won their 2 group matches that includes a 75-26 win over Tunisia and then, a 106-39 win over Cameroon in 3-nation group. They followed that up with a quarterfinal & semifinal wins over Democratic Republic of Congo(79-46) and Mali(79-58) respectively. Senegal, on her path to the the final recorded 2 group-stage wins also, 77-36 over the Ivory Coast and 85-47 win over Egypt. Won her quarterfinal 88-54 over Angola and semifinal 60-57 win over Mozambique.

3rd place team Mali, source

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Earlier in the 3rd-place playoff, Mali defeated Mozambique 66-54 to come 3rd in 2nd successive tournament having also emerged 3rd on home soil 2 years ago.

MVP Kalu, source

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Best 5 source

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Tournament Most Valuable Playerwent to Nigeria's Ezinne Kalu who averaged 13 points and 3 assists in the 5 games. She also made tournament's best 5 alongside countrywoman Evelyn Akhator, Senegalese Aston Traore(MVP in the last tournament), Mali's Touty Gandega and Mozambique's Leia Dongue.

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