{"id":49855,"date":"2025-08-07T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49855\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:41:04","slug":"morocco-qualifies-for-the-2025-u16-womens-afrobasket-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49855\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco qualifies for the 2025 U16 Women&#8217;s AfroBasket\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS (Tunisia) &#8211; Morocco secured their second consecutive ticket to the FIBA U16 Women&#8217;s AfroBasket by sweeping the FIBA Africa Zone 1 qualifiers in Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>They defeated Algeria 59-33 and closed their campaign with a 68-50 victory over Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>This victory was sweet revenge for Morocco, whose 2023 U16 Women&#8217;s AfroBasket playoff run ended after losing 69-42 to Tunisia in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco eventually finished fifth two years ago while Tunisia finished fourth after losing 50-43 to Angola in the Third-Place Game.<\/p>\n<p>They are now set to make their second consecutive appearance in the tournament, scheduled to take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from September 2-14.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUNIS (Tunisia) &#8211; Morocco secured their second consecutive ticket to the FIBA U16 Women&#8217;s AfroBasket by sweeping the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-49855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}