{"id":206155,"date":"2025-09-03T05:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/nigeria-senegals-lions-end-dtigers-dream-of-emulating-dtigress-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:52:49","slug":"nigeria-senegals-lions-end-dtigers-dream-of-emulating-dtigress-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/nigeria-senegals-lions-end-dtigers-dream-of-emulating-dtigress-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Senegal&#8217;s Lions End d&#8217;Tigers Dream of Emulating d&#8217;Tigress in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Semifinal for Final Ticket &#8211; *Senegal to Play Mali<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nigeria&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s basketball team D&#8217;Tigers&#8217; quests to emulate their ladies crashed last night as they lost 75-91 to Senegal in the quarterfinal of the 2025 Afrobasket Championship in Luanda, Angola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The loss effectively put paid to their dream of also winning the championship and getting rewarded bountifully with thousands of dollars, houses and national honours back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">And so, they will have to wait another one year before taking a short&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semifinal for Final Ticket &#8211; *Senegal to Play Mali Nigeria&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s basketball team D&#8217;Tigers&#8217; quests to emulate their ladies crashed last night as they lost 75-91 to Senegal in the quarterfinal of the 2025 Afrobasket Championship in Luanda, Angola. The loss effectively put paid to their dream of also winning the championship and getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7421,14271,29871,43021,8779,257,4687,10579,254],"class_list":["post-206155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-dream","tag-dtigers","tag-dtigress","tag-emulating","tag-lions","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-senegals","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}