Nigeria’s D’Tigress have been drawn towards the USA within the quarter-finals of the ladies’s basketball occasion on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Nigerian girls made historical past by securing Nigeria’s first-ever berth within the final eight of the Olympic basketball match.
This adopted their spectacular 79-70 victory over Canada of their ultimate group recreation on Sunday.
The group accrued 5 classification factors and initially topped Group B.
Nevertheless, their standing shifted when Australia triumphed over France 79-72 within the different group match, pushing Nigeria down to 3rd place within the group rankings.
The group is now set to face the defending champions, USA on August 7 at 9:30 pm.
The encounter is the second Olympic face-off between the 2 groups.
On the Tokyo Video games, D’Tigress suffered a slender nine-point defeat to the Individuals of their opening group recreation. They have been additionally overwhelmed within the 2024 Olympics qualifiers.
Elsewhere in different quarter-finals clashes, Serbia will conflict with Australia, Spain will go up towards Belgium, and France will face Germany.
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