Nigeria’s D’Tigress defeated Mali in the final of the 2021 women’s Afrobasket championship in Yaounde, Cameron on Sunday.
D’Tigress outclassed the Malians in the first three quarters — scoring 22-11, 13-9, 28-14 points respectively — while the opposition got the upper hand in the fourth quarter with 21-11 points.
But at the end of the exhilarating experience, D’Tigress won 70-59 to claim the title.
It will be recalled that the Nigerian senior women’s national basketball team won the 2017 trophy in Bamako and has since stayed unbeaten in every African competition.
They also claimed their second title in Dakar, Senegal in 2019.
