Basketball in Africa

Nigeria male and female team have book a spot at the quarter-finals of the basketball event of the 9th All Africa Games holding in Algiers, Algeria.

The Nigeria female team who were unstoppable top group-B with maximumm points while its male counterpart placed second behind Angola.

Nigeria stopped ambitious Camerron who until Tuesday game against Nigeria had only lost one match just like Nigeria bowed to the more experiance Nigerian side led by Olumide Oyedeji.

The Nigeria side led its Cameroonian counterpart with halftime scores standing at 46-40 but the Paul Biya's boys could only register 21 points in the last two quaters with fulltime scores at 81-61 points.
Angola on the other hand purnished Mali by 71-64 points while South Africa recorded a surprised 82-66 points over Tunisia while DR Congo compounded the woes of Liberia by 93-66 points defeat.

In the women event Nigeria topped her group with maximum points from five matches as Mfon Udoka and her teammates defeated Mali by 65-49 points to set up a quarter-final battle line against DR Congo.

Tuesday Results - Women:

Senegal 69-45 Kenya
RD Congo 48-45 Cote d'Ivoire
Tunisia 92-71 Zimbabwe
Angola 53-41 Algeria
Nigeria 65-49 Mali

Men:

LIBERIA RD Congo 93-66 Liberia
South Africa 82-66 Tunisia
Angola 71-64 Mali
Cote d'Ivoire 65-52 Algeria
Nigeria 81-61 Cameroon

Quarter-finals pairing - Women - 19/07/07
13.00: TUNISIA Vs ANGOLA
15.00: RD CONGO Vs NIGERIA
17.00: ALGERIA Vs SENEGAL
19.00: KENYA Vs MOZAMBIQUE

Quarter-final pairing - Men - 19/07/07
13.00: CAMEROUN Vs EGYPT
15.00: SOUTH AFRICA Vs ANGOLA
17.00: MALI Vs COTE D’IVOIRE
19.00: ALGERIA Vs NIGERIA

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