After some shocking results on day five of the tournament, only two teams, defending champions Angola and Nigeria, remain as the only undefeated nations in the 2009 Afrobasket tournament

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Angola and Nigeria will meet today in the fifth match of the day (schedule).

Senegal loses PG, upset by Morocco
Senegal has been upset twice in it’s last two games.

After coming out of the prelimiary round unbeaten, the west African nation would drop their next two games in surprising losses to Rwanda and Morocco.

Their losses coincided with an injury to their point guard Babacar Cissé.  Cissé, who leads the field in assists at 6.2, went down early in Senegal’s game against Rwanda and wasn’t available against Morocco.

With Senegal’s 75-73 loss to Morocco, there is no chance that the Senegalese team will advance to the next round.  The game was tightly-contested until the Moroccan team outscored their Senegalese opponents 20-8 in the third quarter to open up a ten point lead going into the final stanza.

Mohamad Hacad led Morocco with a double double (18 points and 13 rebounds). Hamed was buoyed by Zakaria El-Masbahi (17 points), Yunss Akinocho (12) and Younes Idrissi (10 points and 7 rebounds).

Senegal wasted Mouhammad Faye’s 18 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 assists.  Boniface N’Dong added 13 points and 12 rebounds for the losers.

Tunisia continues Success, upsets Cameroon
The surprise team of the tournament has to be the small, northern nation of Tunisia who is 4-1 after their first five games.

Tunisia lost their first game to last year’s darling, Cape Verde, but would go on to win their next four matches, to go to the top of their group.

Tunisia used Amine Rzig’s team-high 17 points and 6 rebounds to help upset Cameroon 68-66.   This has been a difficult tournament for team Cameroon, who placed second in the 2007 Afrobasket and whose two losses were both two-point margins.

Gaston Essengué led Cameroon with 14 points.  Cameroon outshot their opponents from the field, 3pt, and free-throws, but turned the ball over eight more times (23-15).

To the northwest of Libya, the Tunisians have won their last two games by a total of just three points.  They will attempt to continue their dark horse ways and try upset Senegal in their next game.

Libya defeats Egypt at the buzzer
Egypt mounted a furious comeback on Libya and tied the game at 73 with just three seconds left before Raid Fareed launched a jumper that found the bottom of the net.

The shot gave hosts Libya a 75-73 upset of Egypt,

Both teams were in a must-win situation in order to keep their hopes alive to advance into the next round.  Egypt and Libya came into the game having lost three of their four games.

Libyan Alfateh Belgasim led the floor with 23 poinst and 6 rebounds while the quartet of Mohamed Mersal, Hisham Farag added 15 points and match hero Raid Fareed contributed 10 points.

Libya is hosting their first Afrobasket and is participating in the tournament for the first time in 30 years.  Libya played in the 1965, 1970, and 1978 Afrobasket championships.