By Victor Kanayo
Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, will face defending champion, USA in the quarter-final stage at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The pairings for the quarter-finals was made after the completion of the group stage matches on Sunday.
D’Tigress, who earned a place in the history books as the first African basketball team (male or female) to reach the quarterfinals at the Olympics delivered stunning performances in the group stage.
Rena Wakama’s led-team recorded stunning victories against Australia and Canada.
They outclassed Australia by a 13-point margin, 75-62, in their Group B opener on Monday, July 29.
The victory against Australia was their first win at the games in 20 years.
However, Nigeria lost to France 75-54 in the second group game, but rallied to beat Canada 79-70 on Sunday.
USA won all their group matches, finishing top of the log.
They defeated Japan, Belgium and Germany.
