Following their remarkable performance at the Paris Olympic Games, Nigeria’s D’Tigress has climbed to an historic eighth position on the latest ranking table.
Rene Wakama tutored the team reached the quarter-finals for the first time, defeating higher-ranked teams such as Australia and Canada in the process.
Despite their eventual loss to the United States in the quarter-finals, D’Tigress made history as the first African team male or female to break into the top 10 of the FIBA rankings.
Before the games in Paris, the African champions was ranked 12th in the power rankings but they proved the bookmakers wrong by reaching the last 8.
