Senegal national basketball team

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The Senegal national basketball team are the men's basketball side that represent Senegal in international competition. The squad has comprised several players to have competed in the National Basketball Association, including Dallas Mavericks center DeSagana Diop, and is considered, with those of Nigeria and Angola, a top African side.

The team are five times a gold medallist (in 1968, 1972, 1978, 1980, and 1997), six times a silver medallist, and thrice a bronze medallist at the FIBA Africa Championship, and, having finished as the runner-up to Angola in the 2005 championship, qualified for play in the 2006 FIBA World Championship, where the squad finished last in Group D and twenty-second amongst the twenty-four sides to have contested the Championship, having lost to the United States, Italy, Slovenia, China, and Puerto Rico.

[edit] Squad

[edit] 2006 FIBA World Championship roster

Jersey number	Position played	Name	Year of birth	Team otherwise represented
4	Center	Makthar N'Diaye	1972	Levallois
5	Guard	El Kabir Pene	1984	Clermont-Ferrand
6	Guard	Pape Ibrahim Faye	1980	Al Rayyan
7	Guard	Babacar Cissé	1976	Le Havre
8	Forward	Sitapha Savané	1978	Gran Canaria Grupo Dunas
9	Forward	Maleye N'Doye	1980	Dijon
10	Guard	Mamadou Diouf	1983	Sendai 89ers
11	Forward	Souleymane Aw	1981	ASCC BOPP
12	Forward	Moustapha Niang	1977	Chorale Roanne
13	Center	Mamadou N'Diaye	1975	PAOK
14	Center	Ndongo N'Diaye	1977	Primeiro de Agosto
15	Forward	Malick Badiane	1984	Deutsche Bank Skyliners