Nigeria has been grouped alongside Australia, New Zealand and Canada in the basketball event of the XXI Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast 2018.
Despite being ranked number 1 in Africa and 32nd in the world, Nigeria is still the lowest ranking team in their group. Host- Australia who finished 4th at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is ranked 10th in the world.
Set to make their debut at the Commonwealth, Canada is ranked 25th in the world and have participated in 9 Olympic games and won a silver medal at the 1936 Games in Berlin.
According to organisers, the top two teams in each group will proceed to the semi-final stage while the bottom two teams from Group A will play the to
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