FIBA Africa Zone 3 3X3 Tour: MVP Chioma Udeaja Plays Big as Nigeria Beat Togo To Emerge Champions In Lagos

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Chioma Udeaja added FIBA Africa Zone 3 3X3 Tour, most valuable player to her trophy cabinet as she 7 points to lead Nigeria to victory in the championship game in the Lagos FIBA Africa Zone 3 3X3 Tour with a convincing 21-9 points win over  Togo.

Nkechi Akashili who also leaved up to her high ratings added 7 points as well while Atosu Upe added 5 points and Sarah Ogoke added  2 points.

Captain of Team Nigeria Atosu Upe said she was great fun to God and her teammates for the win.

"I thank God and my team mates for the victory".

"We are so happy to win this FIBA Africa Zonal championship, we hope tournaments like this continue because it will help the development of basketball in Nigeria".

An elated Sarah Ogoke thanked the FIBA Africa Zone 3 leadership for the opportunity to represent Nigeria once again.

" It's always a honour and privilege to come home and represent Nigeria in basketball, whether it's 3x3 or 5 on 5. I really want to appreciate the FIBA Africa Zone 3 President Col. Sam Ahmedu for bringing this to Nigeria, hopefully we will see more of this".

" I also want to shout out to my team mates for playing their hearts out. Chioma did a wonderful job to get the MVP and all the other teams were equally wonderful".

Reigning Most valuable player in the Nigerian Women's League and now FIBA Africa Zone 3 3x3 most valuable player praised the idea of the 3x3 championship.

" It's really wonderful this is happening in Nigeria, It gives us an opportunity to play against international opponents and develop ourselves more as Players with the extra competition coming in. Kudos to the organisers, I just hope this will continue".

The women champions took home $1000 for their triumph, while runners up Togo went home with $750 and Benin Republic with $300 respectively. 

Nigeria's dominance in the zone was concluded in the U18 Girls category where Nigeria took out Benin Republic 11-3 in the final after coming tops in a 3 team round rubbing preliminaries that had Togo also in the mix. Nigeria's Menah Daniel also took home the MVP award in the category.

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