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Nigeria draw DR Congo, Mali, Cote D’Ivoire in AfroBasket 2017

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Nigeria draw DR Congo, Mali, Cote D’Ivoire in AfroBasket 2017

Nigeria’s power forward Ike Diogu (L) is blocked during a Men’s round Group B basketball match between Lithuania and Nigeria at the Carioca Arena 1 in Rio de Janeiro yesterday during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Photo: AFP

Nigeria’s D’Tigers have been drawn in Group A of the FIBA AfroBasket 2017 scheduled for Senegal and Tunisia from Sept. 8 to Sept. 16.

According to a report on the website of FIBA-Africa, the competition’s organisers, Nigeria, who are the reigning champions, have been drawn alongside DR Congo, Mali and Cote D’Ivoire.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the official draw for the competition took place on Sunday in Balaclava, Mauritius.

Group B of the competition has Angola, Central African Republic (CAR), Morocco and Uganda, while Group C has co-hosts Tunisia as well as Guinea, Rwanda and Cameroon.

Co-hosts Senegal have been drawn in Group D and has Mozambique, Egypt and South Africa to contend with.

The Group Phase of the competition will take place simultaneously in Senegal’s capital city of Dakar and Tunisia’s Tunis from Sept. 8 to Sept. 10.

Dakar will host Group B and Group D, while teams drawn in groups A and C will compete in Tunis.

The bottom two teams from each group in the Group Phase will be knocked out of the competition, which is the African continent’s flagship basketball event.

The top two teams from the groups in Dakar will advance to join their counterparts in Tunis, which will now solely host the Final Phase.

The Tunisian capital city will go on to host matches of the Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals from Sept. 14 to Sept. 16.

Nigeria , DR Congo , Mali , Cote D’Ivoire , AfroBasket 2017

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