Nigeria’s U-19 ladies’s basketball group, Junior D’Tigress, have been yesterday, drawn alongside Portugal, Canada and China in Group B of the 2025 U-19 World Cup scheduled to carry in Brno, Czech Republic, from July 12 to twenty.
Yesterday’s attracts was carried out by Czech Republic’s former nationwide group stars, Ivana Becerova and Eva Viteckova, with Nigeria in Pot 4 alongside Hungary, Argentina, and Brazil.
In different pairings, USA, Israel, Hungary and Korea are in Group A. Group C has Australia, France, Brazil and Africa’s second group, Mali. Group D incorporates Japan, Czech Republic, Argentina and Spain.
The Junior D’Tigress certified to characterize Africa on this 12 months’s occasion by ending as runners-up to Mali on the U-18 Girls’s AfroBasket final 12 months. Nigeria was initially set to make its debut in Chile when it completed second behind hosts Egypt within the 2010 FIBA Africa U-18 Championship for Girls in Cairo but it surely ended up not taking part.
Within the 2025 championship, the Nigerian women will start their Group C marketing campaign towards China on July 12, whereas Portugal will face Canada the identical day.The Nigerians will meet Canada of their second sport on Sunday, July 13 with China and Portugal slugging it out identical day earlier than all of the groups take a day’s relaxation on Monday, July 14.
Nigeria’s final group sport is towards Portugal on July 15 and will they end among the many greatest two groups from Group C, they may transfer to the spherical of 16 slated for Wednesday, July 16.
Thursday, July 17 is relaxation day for the groups. In keeping with FIBA, the quarterfinals and first classification matches will maintain on July 18, simply because the second set of classification video games and the semifinals will probably be performed on Saturday, July 19.
The ultimate classification video games to find out the groups for the fifteenth to the fifth positions will maintain shortly earlier than the third place and championship video games on Sunday, July 20.
FIBA stated that the group part and spherical of 16 matches haven’t but been assigned to a selected corridor on the competitors venue, the Starez Area Vodova (Corridor 1 or Corridor 2, simply as “the sport order inside every corridor remains to be to be confirmed and will probably be introduced later.”
