By Albert Akota
Mr. Igoche Mark, the initiator of Mark ‘D’ Ball Basketball Championship Igoche Mark has poured encomiums on Nigeria’s senior women basketball team, D’Tigress, for their victory at the 2023 Afrobasket championship in Kigali, Rwanda.
Defending champions, D’Tigress defeated their Senegalese counterparts 84 – 74 in the final of the championship to win their fourth consecutive title.
An elated Mark, said that D’Tigress victory was confirmation of her dominance of the sport in Africa.
He commended the team for their superlative performance in the tournament and praised them for doing the nation proud.
The D’Tigress finished with significant victories over DR Congo, Egypt, Mozambique and host Rwanda before beating Senegal in Saturday’s final.
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