Igoche Mark has lauded Nigeria\u2019s senior women basketball team, D\u2019Tigress for their victory at the 2023 Afrobasket championship in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/P>
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that defending champions D\u2019Tigress on Saturday, defeated their Senegalese counterparts 84 \u2013 74 in the final of the championship to win their fourth straight title.<\/P>
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An elated Mark, told NAN that D\u2019Tigress victory was confirmation of her dominance of the sport in Africa.<\/P>
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He commended the team for their superlative performance in the tournament and praised them for doing the nation proud.<\/P>
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\u201cClearly now D\u2019Tigress dominance of the sport is indisputable.<\/P>
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\u201cThis is the evidence that Nigeria\u2019s women basketball can be ranked as a World-class programme.<\/P>
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\u201cWe have to sustain this momentum. This is remarkable, winning the Afrobasket Championships for an unprecedented fourth time.<\/P>
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\u201cI salute the team (D\u2019Tigress) for their professional commitment and execution. They have indeed put smiles on the faces of Nigerians and have done the nation proud against all odds,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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Mark was also full of praise for Nigeria\u2019s top basketball investor, Mohammed Shehu, whose state-of-the-art basketball facility (Mo\u2019 Arena) in Abuja served as camping ground for the D\u2019Tigress before the Afrobasket Championship in Rwanda.<\/P>
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\u201cI\u2019ll also like to appreciate and congratulate Mohammed Shehu for the successful completion of his state-of-the-art basketball facility (Mo\u2019 Arena), a befitting arena and one of the best, if not the best in the country.<\/P>
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\u201cWe are grateful for your benevolence in making it available for our ladies to use as their camping ground before setting out to achieve this great feat,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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Nigeria has been on top of women\u2019s basketball in Africa after winning it five times in 2003, 2005, 2017, 2019 and 2021.<\/P>
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The 2023 FIBA Women\u2019s AfroBasket was a remake of the 2019 FIBA Women\u2019s AfroBasket that was hosted by Senegal in which Nigeria won their second straight title after seeing off the hosts 60-55 in a packed Dakar Arena.<\/P>
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They would later meet again, this time at the 2021 FIBA Women\u2019s AfroBasket semi-finals in Yaounde, Cameroon, where Nigeria once again walked away with a flawless 73-63 victory.<\/P>
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Nigeria would later claim the famous three-peat in the capital city of Cameroon.<\/P>
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D\u2019Tigress had a smooth start to their tournament and kept a perfect record since setting foot on the court at the BK Arena on July 28 enroute to the final.<\/P>
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They finished with significant victories over DR Congo, Egypt, Mozambique and hosts Rwanda before beating Senegal in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/P>
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Rena Wakama, a former player who led D\u2019Tigress to victory was the only female head coach at the 2023 edition of FIBA\u2019s flagship event for women.<\/P>
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The result also meant she became the first female coach to have accomplished this feat in the history of the FIBA Women\u2019s AfroBasket championship.<\/P>
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Source: News Agency of Nigeria<\/P>
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