Nigeria Basketball

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1964 (61 years old)

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Basketball

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FIBA Basketball World Cup
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Ovokx: 10/Feb/23

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02 Jul	Tunisia B	4:00pm	Nigeria B
03 Jul	Nigeria B	4:00pm	Guinea Ba
05 Jul	Rwanda Ba	4:00pm	Nigeria B
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30 Nov	Nigeria B	75 - 69	Rwanda Ba
29 Nov	Guinea Ba	69 - 55	Nigeria B
27 Nov	Nigeria B	78 - 88	Tunisia B
20 Aug	Nigeria B	75 - 91	Senegal B
17 Aug	Nigeria B	99 - 90	Cameroon

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The Nigerian national basketball team is overseen by the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF). It is generally considered to be one of the best national basketball teams in the FIBA Africa zone, along with Angola and Senegal. Nigeria will be ranked 16th in the FIBA World Rankings after the 2016 Olympic Men's Basketball Tournament in Rio, making them the top climber in FIBA rankings from last year.

Nigeria is the only African nation to ever qualify for the Summer Olympics through the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament. This was accomplished at the 2012 Event when Nigeria beat the world elite teams of Lithuania and Greece. In 2015, Nigeria won its first crown as basketball champion of Africa.