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FIBA Ranking: D’Tigress ranks  16th in World, Ist in Africa

 

Nigeria’s women basketball team, D’Tigress have been ranked the 16th
best team in the world and first in Africa in the new ranking system
released by FIBA on Friday.
D’Tigress emerged winners at the 2019 AfroBasketball Women’s
Championship in Senegal, edging out the hosts in the final.
The Nigerian ladies are the only African team in the top 20.
The Afrobasket champions would hope to grab one of the two Olympic
slots at the Africa Pre-Qualifying Tournament for @Tokyo2020 taking
place in Mozambique from November 14-17.
World champions and Olympic gold medalists the USA maintained their
top-ranked spot with 835.6 points, Australia second place with 714.1
points, Spain third with 692.7 points, Canada fourth with 641.9 points
and France a close fifth with 639.3 points.
FIBA announced on their website that with the new women’s competition
system starting this month with the FIBA Women’s Olympic
Pre-Qualifying Tournaments in Africa, the Americas and Asia, it has
launched the new system for the FIBA World Ranking Women, presented by
Nike.
Moving from a competition-based system to a game-based one, the new
ranking is based on results of games ranging from regional
pre-qualifiers all the way to the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup
Final, including the Olympics as well as FIBA Continental Cups. The
previous ranking was purely competition-based and only considered the
final standings of tournaments.

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