The Nigeria
Basketball Federation has assured that the list of D’Tigers’ players to be
invited for the 2017 Afrobasket title defense will be released soon ahead of
the tournament to be co-hosted by Tunisia and Senegal between 8th and 16th of
September, 2017.
The Vice
President of the federation, Babs Oguande, said on Sunday that the Technical
Committee of
the federation is working round the clock to compile names of players who will
be invited to camp ahead of the tournament.
Oguade
assured that the list will be officially made public through all the official
channels of the NBBF as soon as arrangements have been finalized for the
camping exercise.
“We are
working on the men's team. The list will not be ready for announcement on
Monday, 07 August 2017 as expected. We will call for camping very soon and once
that is done, we will officially inform you.”
DTigers who
won the trophy in 2015 will play their group games in Tunisia and are drawn in
group B of the tournament alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Côte
d'Ivoire.
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