Nigeria’s ladies turned the primary staff from the African continent, males or ladies, ever to succeed in the quarter-finals of an Olympic basketball match on Sunday.
The Nigerians clinched their place within the final eight by beating Canada 79-70 on the Pierre-Mauroy Stadium close to Lille.
The win means Nigeria are assured to complete among the many prime three in Group B however the Canadians had been eradicated with out registering a single victory.
The Nigerians outscored the Canadians 23-5 within the third quarter. US-born Ezinne Kalu top-scored with 21 factors and Elizabeth Balogun scored 14 factors.
The draw for the ladies’s quarter-finals might be made later Sunday with the video games to be performed on Wednesday.
The knockout levels of the boys’s and girls’s basketball match might be performed in Paris.
AFP.
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