The Nigeria Basketball Federation has released its official team roster for the XXI Commonwealth Games.
The roster announced by the NBBF secretary, Asiegbu Chimezie, was compiled by Coach Alex Nwora and his technical team.
The team made up of 6 home based players and 6 foreign based players will be captained by Ike Diogu.
Diogu is joined by other foreign-based stars like Uchenna Iroegbu, Olatunji Olalekan Graham and Ofoegbu Uchechi Chima (all USA) as well as Philippines based Orizu Prince Ifeanyi.
According to a statement signed by Chimezie Asiegbu, secretary of the Nigerian Basketball Federation, Nwora called up Mark Mentors, Musa Usman who was left out of the D’Tigers squad for the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers in Bamako, Mali.
Also included in the roster for the Commonwealth Games are Kano Pillars trio of Azuoma Dike, Abdul Yahaha and Dung Eli Abraham.
The statement also revealed that the pre-games camping is expected to end on the 22nd, as the team will depart for Brisbane on March 23rd, 2018 ahead of their first game against New Zealand on Friday, 6th, April.
Nigeria is in Group B alongside host- Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Nigeria’s best showing was a fourth-place showing at the 2006 games and D’Tigers will be hoping to do better in Australia.
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