Nigeria's D'Tigers Humble Chad, 84 - 46.

Nigeria became the first country to reach the final eight of the 26th FIBA Africa Championship for Men with an 84 - 46 points victory over Chad in the round of eight final played on Tuesday at the Palais des Sports Antananarivo, Madagascar.

The Coach Ayo Bakare tutored Nigerian side had adopted a moderate approach to the game winning the first two quarters by 23- 09 and 22- 04 for a half-time scores of 45- 13 points.

The team decided to slow down thus allowing the Chadian to pick the third quarter by 12-16 points but rally back to take the fourth and final quarter by 27-17 points for a final scores of 84- 46 points.

Nigeria Ime Udoka led the Nigerian side with 14 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Derrick Obasohan added 12 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists while forward Ejike Ugboaja had a double double figure of 10 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists to earn Nigeria a quarter-final ticket.

Nigeria will battle the winner of the eight final round game between Central Africa Republic and Egypt in the quarter-final tomorrow.

In other games played,.Central Africa beat Egypt by 71- 66 points, Cameroon outplayed Togo by 85-52 points as Angola beat Mozambique 82-71 points

In today's pairings, Cote D'Ivoire will confront Rwanda, Tunisia Versus South Africa,Senegal will meet Madagascar while Mali will test the might of Morocco