Nigeria’s men’s basketball senior
national team on Sunday made history
in Rades, Tunisia in winning for the first
time ever top spot at the 2015 FIBA
African Basketball Championship,
AfroBasket 2015, with a 74-65 cruise
against former champions Angola.
D’Tigers defeated Angola for the first
time in history as Ogide, Alade Aminu
and Olaseni Lawal did an amazing job
on the glass.
The team automatically qualifies for the
2016 Rio Olympics.
Al-Farouq Aminuand Chamberlin Oguchi
were named to the Afrobasket All-Star
team.
Oguchi was also named the Most
Valuable Player of the 2015
Afrobasketball.
The Angola team had early lead despite
a lot of attempts made by the Nigeria
team.
Al Farouq Aminu scored one of the free
throws the team had and another 2
pointer to make the score 7-3 in favour
of Angola at the early stage, thanks to
Chamberlin Oguchi’s 3 points that
made the score 7-6.
The Nigeria side look better but they
were not confident at the early of the
game.
The South African team did not miss
too much of free throws in the first
quarter.
Ogide scored one of his free throw and
made the score line 13-10 in favour of
Angola at the end of the quarter.
Free throw by Gbinije at the early of
second quarter gave Nigeria another 2
points yet Angola were having upper
hands.
Ben Uzoh tried his best and made it
14-14.
Nigeria won another free throw, it gave
them 3 points to put Nigeria ahead of
Congo 16-18 for the first time in the
match before the Angola scored 3
points.
At this moment, Nigeria had woken up.
They started scoring their free throws
and had a 3 points by Oguchi, which
put Nigeria ahead of their opponents
again, 19-23 in favour of D’Tigers.
The game at the end of the first half
ended 24-37 in D’Tigers’ favour at the
end of the first half, free throw favoured
Nigeria in this quarter.
Lawal had 10 points and 5 rebounds,
while Oguchi scored 9 points.
D’Tigers came out in the third quarter
decisively with another 2 points scored
by Aminu.
Lawal foul’s foul earned Angola 2
points but this did not discourage
Williams Voigt in their struggle to beat
their arch rival as Nigeria added
another 2 points but Angola quickly
retaliated with 3 points and another 2
points.
Ogide again brought Nigeria’s lead to
11 points with his 2 points and
Oguchi’s free throw extended the lead
to 14 points, the third quarter ended in
36-51.
The last quarter of the game was very
interesting as D’Tigers kept scoring
while the opponents unsuccessfully
struggling to meet up as oguchi and
Alfarouq brought their hope to an end.
Our earlier story: Nigeria’s D’Tigers on
Sunday night defeated Angola 74-65 to
claim their first ever AfroBasket
Championship title and qualify for the
Rio 2016 Olympic Games men’s
basketball event.
Nigeria had in the semi-final defeated
Senegal.
Senegal had stopped Nigeria from
qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games.
More details on this news website soon.
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