Nigeria’s men’s national basketball team, D’Tigers, have slipped three places to 53rd in the latest International Basketball Federation world rankings released on Thursday,
The drop sees Nigeria fall from their previous position of 50th globally and eighth on the African continent with 271.2 ranking points in the rankings published by the sport’s governing body.
The decline makes Nigeria the joint second-biggest fallers among African teams in the latest update, sharing that distinction with Tunisia, which also dropped three places to 52nd in the world standings. Rwanda recorded the biggest fall on the continent, slipping five places to 86th.
Within Africa, Nigeria remain eighth in the continental hierarchy, behind South Sudan, Angola, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Senegal, Cape Verde and Tunisia.