Following the latest FIBA power ranking, Nigeria has been placed as the fourth-best team of the 12 countries that will be featuring at the Olympics behind Spain and the USA.

The power ranking is determined by dividing the sum of all the winning points, tie points, schedule points, and bonus points by the number of games played.

According to power ranking, Australia is at the No.1 spot, Spain was second-placed and the USA ranked third while Nigeria Fourth, Slovenia Fifth, France sixth, Italy Seventh and Lastly Argentina Eight.

D’ Tigers celebrated their win on another level in line with the Nigeria Basket Federation as it is proved that their teamwork and that of their Coaching crew headed by Mike Brown was not fruitless.

FIBA is an association of national organization that governs the basketball World Wide and it was formerly known as federation International de Basketball Amateur but later dropped “Amateur” in the year 1989 although, till date, they still maintained the acronym.