Nigeria’s D’Tigress suffer 81-72 loss to USA at 2020 Tokyo Olympics
There is news about Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team D’Tigress.
in their opening group B game of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Japan on Tuesday, July 27th Nigeria’s senior women’s national team known as D’Tigress suffered an 81-72 loss to the United States of America (USA).
Nigeria took the first quarter 20-17. The USA bounced back to take the second and third quarters 27-12 and 26-18 respectively. However, D’Tigress showed fighting spirit to take the fourth quarter 22-11 but was not enough.
Nigeria will now have to beat Japan and Spain in order to qualify for the quarterfinals of the tournament.