D’Tigers’ victories over the United States and Argentina in tune-up games have earned them favourable odds as a prospective winner of the basketball event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics from leading Sports betting companies around the world.
Nigeria’s men’s basketball team, prior to last weekend’s shock 90-87 win over the world’s top basketball team, were pegged at 151.00 (150/1) of came clinching gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
But after the Mike Brown-tutored D’Tigers got the better of Team USA in the pre-Olympic Games tune-up match, the odds improved significantly to 51.00 (50/1) across most of the world’s major sports betting platforms.
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Nigeria’s 51.00 odds of winning gold in Tokyo was only better than those of Germany (66.00), the Czech Republic (86.00), Japan (101.00) and Iran (101.00).
Those odds have even further improved to between 29.00 (28/1) and 31.00 (30/1) following Nigeria’s exciting 94-71 blowout of another top-ranked team Argentina on Monday night in another pre-Olympic Games preparatory match.
Now, the only teams higher ranked than Nigeria in the odds department are Slovenia (20.00), France (17.00), Australia (13.00), Spain (10.00), and the United States (1.18).
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