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Wikipedia - Nigeria women's national basketball team
The Nigeria women's national basketball team (Igbo: ndị otu egwuregwu basketbọl ụmụ nwanyị nke Naịjirịa), also known as the D'Tigress, represents Nigeria in international women's basketball competition, and are regulated by the Nigeria Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Nigeria. Nigeria has one of the most successful women's national teams on the African Continent, being the current African champions. They have won the Women's Afrobasket Championship consecutively for four times in a row and six times in total. They won in 2017 at Bamako, Mali, 2019 at Dakar, Senegal, 2021 at Yaounde, Cameroun, and 2023 at Kigali, Rwanda.
History
2004 Summer Olympics
The Nigerians competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in basketball, one of ten events their national teams qualified for. The Nigerian women's basketball team was one of the twelve teams competing in the event. They earned their berth through a zone qualifying tournament and played in Group A along with Australia, Brazil, Greece, Japan, and Russia. The team went 0–5 in the preliminary round. In the 11/12th place game, they defeated the Korea for a final finish of 11th out of 12 teams. With this win, they became the first women's African basketball team to win a game at the Olympics.
Mfon Udoka was the team's leading scorer and the tournament's second highest scorer. Team athletes Itoro Umoh-Coleman and Joanne Aluka both played high school basketball at Hephzibah High School prior to playing together for Nigeria.
2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
Nigeria qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship by winning the 2005 FIBA Africa Championship for Women. They were placed into Group C with China, Russia, and the United States. Nigeria did not qualify for a pass into the second round and were defeated in the 15/16th place game by fellow African representatives Senegal by a score of 66–64. Their tournament record was 0–5.
Nigeria also participated in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, Australia.
Team in 2007
The team attended the FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007; the qualifying event for African teams attempting to make the 2008 Summer Olympics. Nigeria made it to the quarterfinals of the 2007 FIBA African Championship before losing to Mozambique 69–61. They won fifth place by defeating Cameroon 63–50. The team did not qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games.
The Nigerian squad went undefeated in group play during the 2007 All-Africa Games. They went on to the semi-finals and lost to Mozambique 57–46.
2009 Nations Cup
Nigeria has qualified for the 2009 Africa Cup of Nations (basketball) to be held in Libya.
Отборът участва на 3 Световни първенства, като най-доброто им класиране е 17-о място през 2006 г. Те печелят две Африкански първенства през 2003 и 2005 г. и печелят сребърни медали през 1997, 2011 и 2013 г.
Отборът се класира за Летните олимпийски игри за първи път през 2004 г., като попада в първия кръг, преди да отпадне след загуба с 58:93 от Австралия на 1/4-финалите. След това се класират за още две олимпиади през 2012 и 2016 г., като губят във всичките си мачове в груповата фаза и в двата случая не успяват да стигнат до плейофите.
Забележителни играчи в историята на отбора са Мучо Овоко, Евелин Акуовон Оморуи и Ада Огу Чикуек.