Nigeria’s senior males’s nationwide basketball group, D’ Tigers, dropped 4 locations within the newest FIBA rating launched on Thursday, slumped from thirty ninth to forty second place on the earth.
The previous African champions garnered 299.7 factors through the month beneath evaluation and ranked the sixth greatest group in Africa behind South Sudan, Coted’Ivoire, Angola, Tunisia and Egypt who’re the highest 5 African groups.
D’Tigers’ drop within the newest FIBA rating is a testomony to their failure to qualify for the simply concluded Paris 2024 Olympics Males’s Basketball Event, which was gained by the USA.
The Nigeria’s males’s basketball group missed out on the Paris 2024 Olympics after recording a winless streak on the 2024 FIBA Olympic pre-qualification event held at Eko Conference Centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
The D’Tigers, who had been sixteenth within the World Rating after the Rio 2016 Olympics, misplaced to Mali and Senegal, ending third of their group and ending their four-year consecutive look on the Olympics since 2012.
Nonetheless, some African nations, together with South Sudan and Cameroon made upward motion within the newest FIBA Rating.
South Sudan, who showcased outstanding efficiency on the Paris 2024 Olympic basketball event by successful in opposition to Puerto Rico 90-79 however dropping to the USA and Serbia, had the one double-digit leap among the many High 50 within the newest FIBA Rating. They moved up from thirty fourth to twenty third.
Cameroon additionally climbed up 5 locations to sixty fourth. Côte d’Ivoire is ranked as the very best African nation at thirty first, adopted by Angola at thirty second.
In the meantime, the USA, who gained the gold medal on the Paris 2024 Olympic Males’s Basketball Event, remained on the prime of the rating, whereas Serbia overtook Germany to sit down within the second place.
