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Italy SerieA: Montepaschi snaps losing streak
Coming into their Week 24 SerieA contest with Lenovo Cantu, Montepaschi Siena had lost three straight SerieA contests and three straight Euroleague games, including the most recent loss that gave Besiktas JK Istanbul their first Top 16 win on the season. To say that the Montepaschi men had fallen on hard times as of late…
Read MoreNCAA: Tournament Results, Round 3, Day 2
What Day 1 of Round 3 of the NCAA Tournament provided in upsets, Day 2 gave the March Madness faithful in close contests, including a buzzer-beating three-pointer and a driving layup, both of which were game winners. The day’s contests did also include the story of the tournament, South No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast University…
Read MoreLiga Endesa: Bubble teams have rough week
Liga Endesa No. 1 club Real Madrid and No. 2 club Caja Laboral got back to their winning ways with their Week 26 contests. Six clubs currently in the middle of the standings, fighting for the top eight spots and the league playoffs, lost this week, bringing eight teams within four games of each other.…
Read MoreNCAA: Tournament Results, Round 3, Day 1
As the first day of Round 3 of the NCAA Tournament wound down, you could hear a collective groan coming from those that had spent money to join bracket pools. Most of the games went as expected, with the exception of the No. 1 ranked team in the country for the last two weeks of…
Read MoreAdriatic League: All-Serbian Final Four
Regular season play in the Adriatic League wrapped up on Saturday allowing the Final Four to be determined and amazingly the clubs that will be participating are all Serbian. No. 1 club KK Igokea is technically in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but from Republika Srpska which is the Serbian part. The other three, No. 2 KK…
Read MoreNCAA: Tournament Results, Rounds 1-2
The first two rounds of the NCAA tournament are in the books and as expected, the tournament has already been full of surprises, upsets, blowouts and nail-biters. On Thursday East No. 3 Marquette snuck by No. 14 Davidson, 59:58; West No. 1 Gonzaga had their hands full with No. 16 Southern, 64:58; Midwest No. 6…
Read MoreEuroleague: Besiktas upsets Montepaschi Siena
It took them 12 weeks of Euroleague Top 16 play, but Besiktas JK Istanbul have finally earned their first win, at the expense of Montepaschi Siena, 74:72. Siena’s loss and the Maccabi Electra’s win over Olympiacos puts the two clubs in a tie for the second spot in Group F with two other teams, Khimki…
Read MoreEuroleague: Madrid falls, Barcelona rolls on
The quarterfinal picture in Euroleague Group E got much clearer on Thursday as three clubs clinched spots. It was very unceremonious as three of the four teams involved lost their Week 12 matches, but the key loss was No. 5 club Unicaja Malaga falling to CSKA Moscow to give them a three-game cushion with only…
Read MoreEuroCup: Visitors rule Game 1 of semifinals
The 2013 EuroCup competition entered into its semifinal round on Wednesday with Game 1 of both legs being contested. It was a night for the traveling teams as both games ended up going to the visitors by 10 points, setting up Game 2 in each semifinal series on the home courts of the series leaders.…
Read MoreEuroChallenge: Final two qualify for Final Four
The Final Four of the 2013 EuroChallenge are now set as Pinar Karsiyaka defeated Paris Levallois, 85:69, and EWE Baskets stopped Khimik, 100:78 on Tuesday. The clubs will match up with Krasnye Krylia and BCM Gravelines, who won their best of three series last week. The semifinal games will be played on April 26th and will…
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