AfroBasket 2019: Nigeria D’Tigress Beat Senegal To Win FIBA Championship

Nigeria’s D’Tigress have beaten Senegal 60-55 in Dakar to emerge champions of the 2019 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket Championship.

In a keenly-contested final match played on Sunday at the magnificent Dakar Arena which had as much as 15 thousand fans watching, the Nigeria women beat host Senegal 60-55 to win back-to-back continental titles.

With Sunday’s feat, D’Tigress became the first team to win back-to-back FIBA Women’s AfroBasket titles since Angola followed up their 2011 triumph with another in 2013.

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