Teams from Tunisia and Angola must have gone home happy in ending African basketball’s 45-year futile showing against the Philippines in world level competitions.
Before the Tunisians’ 86-67 and the Angolans’ overtime 84-81 victories, respectively, over the Filipinos in the ongoing 2019 FIBA World Cup, no African side ever had scored a single triumph over the many-time Asian Games and Asian Basketball champions in their head-to-head duel since the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
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