Nigeria, July 26 -- Nigeria's senior women's basketball team, D'Tigress, will take the court Saturday afternoon in Abidjan as they open their 2025 FIBA Women's AfroBasket campaign with a clash against Rwanda.

The match marks their first competitive outing since their historic quarter-final run at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - the best performance by any African team in Olympic basketball history.

Led by head coach Rena Wakama, who guided the team to gold at the last AfroBasket tournament in Kigali, Rwanda, the reigning champions are gunning for a fifth consecutive title.

Since 2017, D'Tigress have reigned supreme in African women's basketball, winning four back-to-back titles in Mali, Senegal, Cameroon, and Rwanda. Now in Cote d'Ivoir...