{"id":73818,"date":"2025-08-21T05:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73818"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:52:01","slug":"senegal-stun-dtigers-end-nigerias-afrobasket-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/21\/senegal-stun-dtigers-end-nigerias-afrobasket-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal Stun D\u2019Tigers, End Nigeria\u2019s Afrobasket Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senegal\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team stunned Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigers on Wednesday, knocking them out of the ongoing Afrobasket Championship in Luanda, Angola, and avenging their women\u2019s team\u2019s recent loss to Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigresses.<\/p>\n<p>The contest started evenly, with D\u2019Tigers edging the first quarter 24-23. But Senegal roared back in the second, dominating 30-18 to take a commanding 53-42 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s struggles deepened in the third quarter, where they were outscored 23-13. Though they rallied late with a 20-15 final-quarter win, the effort fell short as Senegal sealed a 91-75 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The result narrows the all-time head-to-head between the two nations to 5-4 in Nigeria\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>A key factor in the upset was the quiet performance of NBA star Josh Okogie, who was restricted to just four points by Senegal\u2019s tight defense, far below his 33-point display in an earlier group game.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senegal\u2019s Brancou Badio delivered a stellar performance, pouring in 32 points with a 29 percent efficiency rating to power his side into the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Senegal\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team stunned Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigers on Wednesday, knocking them out of the ongoing Afrobasket Championship in Luanda, Angola, and avenging their women\u2019s team\u2019s recent loss to Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigresses. The contest started evenly, with D\u2019Tigers edging the first quarter 24-23. But Senegal roared back in the second, dominating 30-18 to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":73819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73820,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73818\/revisions\/73820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}