Nigeria U-19 Team, Junior D’Tigress will discover their foes for the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup 2025, at the draw scheduled for February 4 in Brno, Czechia.
All 16 participating teams are divided into four pots using their strength and current FIBA World Ranking. Nigeria is in Pot 4 alongside Hungary, Argentina, and Brazil.
13 years ago, Nigeria qualified for the FIBA U19 women’s world cup, but couldn’t attend due to administrative challenges.
The Junior D’tigress’s second appearance is a good coincidence for women’s basketball in Nigeria, considering D’Tigress’s heroics at Paris 2024.
Nigeria’s junior D’tigress qualified with silver at the FIBA U18 Women’s AfroBasket 2024.
Meanwhile, coach Juliana Ojoshogu Negedu and her team will be looking forward to the early preparations and ensuring her charges are ready to go if their dream of making an impact is to come true.
Guard, Idubamo Beggi, who earned a place on the tournament’s All-Star team, and Wandoo will be the driving force of the junior D’tigress.
Beggi, 18, who plays alongside Wandoo for the MFM Queens Basketball team in Lagos, scored 109 points in six games.
Also, the FIBA U19 World Cup will dunk off from July 12-20, 2025.
Furthermore, former Czechia national team stars, Ivana Vecerova, and Eva Viteckova will conduct the draws.
The 2025 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup will be the 16th edition of the FIBA Under-19 Women’s Basketball World Cup, the biennial international women’s youth basketball championship contested by the U19 national teams of the FIBA member associations.
