Posts by Bryce
‘Coupe de France de Basket’: Round of 16 results
‘Coupe de France de Basket’ entered into the Round of 16 on Tuesday with six of eight matches being played. The seventh will be contested on Wednesday and the final one on Tuesday, March 5th. There were two upsets as Pro B club Boulogne-su-Mer knocked off Pro A Cholet Basket, 88:80, and NM1 club Sorgues…
Read MoreEuroChallenge: Quarterfinal pairings now set
In what could have been a EuroChallenge statisticians nightmare had certain scenarios played out on Tuesday, things came together about as simple as they could have to finalize the last three slots of the EuroChallenge quarterfinals. Coming into Week 6 of the Last 16, seven teams still had opportunities to qualify for the quarterfinals, some…
Read MoreNCAA: Indiana one vote shy of unanimous #1
With a 24-3 overall record, 12-2 in Big Ten Conference play, the University of Indiana Hoosiers came one first place vote shy of a unanimous No. 1 selection in the Associate Press NCAA Top 25 Poll released on Monday. They also took 28 of 31 first place votes in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. Moving…
Read MoreItaly SerieA: FoxTown Cantu stops Varese
Italian SerieA leader Cimberio Varese suffered their second loss in three games on Sunday when FoxTown Cantu took an important home game for them, 67:60. The loss drops Varese to 16-4 and in a tie for the league lead with Banco di Sardegna Sassari, who won comfortably over Scavolini Banca Marche PU, 87:76. Cantu remains…
Read MoreNCAA: Wake Forest topples No. 2 Miami
The University of Miami has never been ranked as high as No. 2 in the NCAA, so they no doubt have been feeling some extra pressure the last week. For a team that wasn’t in the Top 25 until Week 12 (of 16), to get to No. 2 as quickly as they did was nothing…
Read MoreAnadolu Efes players get surprised
[embedplusvideo height=”387″ width=”480″ alt=”Anadolu Efes” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/8X3OL1UzP3U?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=8X3OL1UzP3U&width=480&height=387&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5902″ /] Last year, a group of guys from the Anadolu Efes basketball club were asked to be in an advertising video that included a rendition of a popular song from a Turkish pop star that essentially thanked the fans for their support. So, Kerem Tunçeri (vocal), Sasha Vujačić…
Read MoreZach Hodskins just wants to play basketball
Ballers across the globe spend practice time learning to pass off the dribble with one hand, work on one-handed shooting drills, learn to keep the second hand light on the ball when they shoot, and a host of other skills to develop their game. In the case of Zach Hodskins, a 6’2″ junior guard from Milton High School in Alpharetta, Georgia (US), he had no choice having been born without much of his left arm.
Read MoreCheerleader is a hit with half-court flip shot…
At basketball games across the globe special promotions are set up where a fan will be brought out to mid-court and given the opportunity to drop in a half-courter to win whatever’s being given away that day.
Read MoreEuroleague: Trio named Top 16 Week 8 MVPs
For the first time in over two years, the weekly Euroleague MVP honor is shared by three players! Devin Smith of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, Roko Ukic of Panathinaikos Athens and Luka Zoric of Unicaja Malaga all played significant roles in their respective team’s victories. And they each had performance index ratings of 28, which led…
Read MoreEuroleague: Anadolu rolls to seventh straight
As the Euroleague qualifier round concluded, Anadolu Efes sat in third place in their group with a 5-5 record. As the Top 16 began, they lost their first contest with CSKA Moscow, 90:71, and it wouldn’t be difficult to have written them off at that time. From that point though, the Turkish club has been…
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