President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigeria’s senior basketball team D’Tigress for winning the AfroBasket competition in Mali on Sunday.
The president applauded Sam Vincent’s girls in tweet posted on his official Twitter handle on Monday.
With the victory the team booked an automatic ticket for the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup.
Congratulations to D’Tigress on the 2017 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket tournament win, & qualifying for the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) August 28, 2017
The girls on Sunday emerged claimed the title after defeating defending champions Senegal 65-48 in the final.
Trailing by six points from the first quarter, the Nigerians fought back to win the second quarter 21-10 points.
D’Tigress never looked back as they extended their lead by winning the third quarter 15-7 points and the fourth quarter 17-13 points.
The Nigeria female basketball team had an unbeaten run at the Afrobasket championship without losing any match.