Lowly rated Uganda on Tuesday stunned Nigeria’s D’Tigers 80-68points, to edge out Africa's number one team from the ongoing 2021FIBA AfroBasket Competition in Rwanda
The 2015 African Champions failed to recover from their defeat to Ivory Coast in the Group C where they finished second and need to play third placed Uganda in Group D for one of the Quarterfinals tickets but lost again inside Kigali Arena
The Nigerian senior men basketball side who are parading entire different team to the Tokyo Olympic squad, simply failed to come to the party, losing 12-24 and 19-20 in the first two sets to trail by 13 points in the opening half.
The American Mike Brown tutored side also lost 18-23 loss in the third quarter to further worsened their situation, allowing the Ugandans to extend their lead by 18 points before fighting back to win the fourth quarter 19-13 which was not enough to see them through to the quarter final
Uganda who advanced to the quarter final with 12 points lead , will now play Cape Verde on Thursday.
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