The Nigerian national women basketball team, D’Tigress for picked the only African ticket to the FIBA Women World Cup.
The ladies, who are three times Afrobasketball champions beat their Malian opponents 73-69 yesterday to qualify as Africa’s sole representatives.
They had earlier beaten the highly rated, world number five, France 67-65, after losing their opening game to China.
Dare praised the queens of the court for doing the nation proud and showing dogged determination in all their games.
