{"id":73835,"date":"2025-08-21T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73835"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:13:31","slug":"nigerias-dtigers-crash-out-of-afrobasket-after-quarter-final-loss-to-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/21\/nigerias-dtigers-crash-out-of-afrobasket-after-quarter-final-loss-to-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigers Crash Out of AfroBasket After Quarter-Final Loss to Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team, D\u2019Tigers, have been knocked out of the 2025 FIBA Men\u2019s AfroBasket following a 91-75 defeat to Senegal in Wednesday\u2019s quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerians had advanced to the last eight with a perfect group-stage record, defeating defending champions Tunisia, Madagascar, and Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>After edging the first quarter 24-23, D\u2019Tigers lost momentum as Senegal surged ahead with dominant second (39-18) and third (23-13) quarter performances. Nigeria took the fourth quarter 20-15, but the deficit proved too wide to close.<\/p>\n<p>The exit prolongs D\u2019Tigers\u2019 wait for a second AfroBasket title, their only triumph coming in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The result stands in sharp contrast to the success of the women\u2019s team, D\u2019Tigress, who recently claimed a record fifth straight AfroBasket crown in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team, D\u2019Tigers, have been knocked out of the 2025 FIBA Men\u2019s AfroBasket following a 91-75 defeat to Senegal in Wednesday\u2019s quarter-final clash. The Nigerians had advanced to the last eight with a perfect group-stage record, defeating defending champions Tunisia, Madagascar, and Cameroon. After edging the first quarter 24-23, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73835","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73837,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73835\/revisions\/73837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}