LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC BASKETBALL QUALIFIER - NIGERIA MAKES A SURPRISE QUARTER FINAL QUALIFICATION!

12 national teams are competing for the three slots at the OLYMPIC qualifiers for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The three qualifiers would join the nine countries that had already qualified for the 12-nations Men’s Basketball Olympic Games at the 2012 Olympic.

Nigeria's Male Basketball team D’Tigers in group B, on Wednesday defeated fifth ranked Lithuania 86-80, but had earlier lost its first match 69-71 to host country Venezuela. D’Tigers, the male’s national team, would on Friday meet Greece in the quarterfinals to get to the semifinals.

Nigeria and Angola were the only two African countries qualified from Africa for the world qualifiers which began on July 2 and scheduled to end on July 8.

Alabi Adelanwa, a former National Player, expressed confidence that D’Tigers would not only qualified for the Olympics, but would also be a team to watch at the Games if they eventually qualified.

“I am very positive about our qualification because our boys had gone through adequate training and friendly matches,” Adelanwa said.


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