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D’Tigress received a huge boost in the backcourt with the return of Ezinne Kalu, another class act who has already delivered at the biggest events, including Tokyo 2020 and the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2018. The playmaker will reassume her position as a leader in the absence of team captain Sarah Ogoke, who won’t be at the tournament for personal reasons.

Ezinne Kalu returned to the team after missing the trip to Kigali last year.

It’s not beyond possibility, and perhaps the biggest hope is that the return of Kalu as court general after three years away from national team duties can give the African champions a new base to build their campaign on.

Alongside her will be Elizabeth Balogun and Promise Amukamara, who are both capable of putting up numbers in terms of scoring and, in the case of the latter, dishing out dimes.

Also, 24-year-old, 6’4-foot-tall centre Lauren Ebo, who was part of the Olympic Games qualifiers in Belgium in February, is heading to the Olympic Games with D’Tigress.

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