Nigeria’s women’s national team will later this week start camping ahead of the qualifiers for the 2015 FIBA Africa Women’s Championship. The FIBA Africa Zone- 3 qualifiers will take
place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from May 26 to 30 and D’Tigress, currently without a coach, will be hoping to secure a ticket to the FIBA Africa Women’s Championship holding later in the year in Cameroon.
The Nigeria Basketball Federation is expected to announce the national team’s coaching crew, as well as the players called up for the qualifiers after the conclusion of the opening phase of the Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League.
D’Tigress have won the FIBA Africa Women’s Championship on two occasions with the team’s last success coming in 2005 on home soil, in Abuja, where, inspired by Mfon Udoka, they defeated the continent’s most successful side, Senegal, 64-57 in the final. Udoka finished as the Most Valuable Player of that tournament.
But since that 2005 success, the best D’Tigress have managed at the Africa Women’s Championship was a fourth-place finish at Mali 2011. Only seven countries have won the Africa Women’s Championship since its inaugural edition took place in Guinea in 1966. The countries are Senegal (7), DR Congo (3), Angola (2), Egypt (2), Nigeria (2), Mali (1) and Madagascar (1).
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