FIBA World Cup: D'Tigress To Face France, Canada, Three Others In Group B

FIBA World Cup: D'Tigress To Face France, Canada, Three Others In Group B By Niyi Busari Nigeria’s D’Tigress will face familiar opponents when they kick of their FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup campaign in Sydney, Australia in September.   Drawn in Group B, they will face France, Australia, Canada, Japan and Serbia. The top four teams progress to the quarter-finals with D'Tigress being the lowest rank team in the group. The African champions, D'Tigress defeated France and Mali to pick the World Cup ticket in Serbia in February.   D'Tigress surprisingly played in the quarter-finals of the 2018 edition of the World Cup. The first time any African country would achieve such feat.   The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 19th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, will be held in Sydney, Australia between 22 September and 1 October 2022.   The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2022 will feature the world's top 12 women's national teams, with 38 games to be played across 10 days from September 22 to October 1.