{"id":1255,"date":"2025-12-16T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:00:10","slug":"rwanda-stumbles-at-world-cup-qualifiers-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/rwanda-stumbles-at-world-cup-qualifiers-in-tunisia\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda stumbles at World Cup qualifiers in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589503645_1390400886429568_7285247675668734713_n-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589503645_1390400886429568_7285247675668734713_n-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589503645_1390400886429568_7285247675668734713_n-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589503645_1390400886429568_7285247675668734713_n-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589503645_1390400886429568_7285247675668734713_n.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rwanda men\u2019s national basketball team endured a rocky to its 2027 World Cup qualifying campaign, failing to register a single win in the window held at the Salle Multidisciplinaire de Rad\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 27, 2025, Rwanda opened Group C action against Guinea national basketball team and suffered an 82\u201370 defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match began evenly first quarter ended tied at 18\u201318 but Rwanda collapsed in the second quarter, conceding a 26\u201312 run that laid the foundation for their loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days later, on November 29, 2025, Rwanda faced hosts Tunisia national basketball team and fell 79\u201366.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia asserted control across the contest, building a halftime lead (40\u201331) and maintaining their advantage through the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite another strong performance from David McCormack who registered what was described as \u201cthe only doubledouble of the day\u201d with 17 points and 17 rebounds in 29 minutes Rwanda couldn\u2019t match Tunisia\u2019s shooting efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 30, 2025, Rwanda ended their campaign were beaten by hosts Nigeria national basketball team, losing 75 \u2013 69 at Rad\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda men\u2019s national basketball team endured a rocky to its 2027 World Cup qualifying campaign, failing to register a single win in the window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}