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Nigeria’s senior basketball team,
D’Tigers secured qualification to the basketball event of the Olympic Games by winning the 2015 AfroBasket.
Nigeria will play Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Lithuania, and a yet to be identified country in the basketball event of the Olympics.
Rules for classification from the group include, Points, Head-to-head results, Points difference and Points scored.
The main players of the squad include Chamberlain Oguchi who finished as Most Valuable Player at the 2015 AfroBasket in Tunisia, Olaseni Lawal, Al-Farouq Aminu, Ben Uzoh and Andy Ogide.
D’Tigers go into the Olympics as at the best national basketball teams in the FIBA Africa zone, along with Angola and Senegal. Nigeria is ranked 24th in the FIBA World Rankings.
This is only the second time they would be playing the Olympic Games. Their first participation was in the 2012 games in London.
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