Nigeria’s men and women basketball teams have both been drawn in group B of the Tokyo 2020 basketball events.
D tigresses, the women’s team have a more challenging task than d tigers as they will face world and olympic champions, the United States of America, European power house, France and Japan.
D’tigresses,lost to the eventual world champions, the USA in the quarter final at the 2018 FIBA women’s world cup in tenerife spain, before losing to France in a classification game at the same tournament.
The coach otis hugely tutored side will be hoping to rewrite history by advancing to the knock out stage.
Meanwhile the men’s team will face Australia and two of the successful teams from the olympic qualifying tournament.
