Nigeria’s ladies’s basketball group, D’Tigress, have moved as much as eighth place within the newest FIBA Ladies’s World Rankings after profitable their fifth straight AfroBasket title.
Coached by Rena Wakama, D’Tigress climbed three spots from their earlier rating, now holding 840.9 factors. This achievement places them forward of basketball powerhouses like Spain, Brazil, and Japan, and makes them the highest-ranked African group. Mali is the subsequent African aspect on the checklist, sitting in 18th place.
D’Tigress have dominated African ladies’s basketball since profitable the continental title in 2017, they usually stay the one African group to achieve the quarter-finals of each the FIBA Ladies’s World Cup and the Olympic Video games.
Their newest rise within the rankings follows a powerful exhibiting on the 2025 AfroBasket in Ivory Coast, the place they beat Senegal 75-68 within the semi-finals and went on to defeat Mali within the ultimate. The main target now shifts to the FIBA Ladies’s World Cup qualifiers, the place they’ll goal to safe a spot within the world match.
