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5th International Rixos Cup Finals Set
The Semi-Finals of the 5th International Rixos Cup were contested yesterday with Banvit BC and Anadolu Efes emerging as the squads in today’s final. Besiktas and Galatasray will duel for the bronze spot in the first contest. Banvit Basketbol Kulubu – Besiktas Istanbul 80-81 Banvit’s Samuel Majia’nin dropped two free throws with 10 seconds on…
Read MoreFIBA Asia Stankovic Cup Tips Off in Tokyo
The 4th FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup tipped off today at 1130 local time in Tokyo (GMT +9), with the first game being between Lebanon and Macau. Coming is as the defending champions, Lebanon wanted to get off to a quick start and got a very inexperienced squad from Macau lined up against them in their…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: The Field is Set with 24 Teams
As the final games of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification Round were getting ready to start, there no doubt were pencils being sharpened, calculator batteries being checked, spreadsheets getting fired up and for those old school mathematicians out there, most likely a slide rule or two getting dusted off in anticipation of the intense calculations that…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: 6 Spots, 10 Teams, Tip Time!
The EuroBasket 2013 Qualification round is about to be committed to the history books, but before they start planning for the Final Round, there’s a game or two left to be played. Today marks the final day of competition to determine which 16 teams will earn the right to compete for their respective countries in…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Georgia qualifies, six left
Georgia took advantage of game eight of the EuroBasket 2013 Qualification Round to punch their tickets to the Finals with a 73-70 win over Latvia. Georgia was the only team that was able to definitively qualify, leaving six openings for the rest of the teams to fight for on the last day of competition, Tuesday,…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Game Eight Scenarios
Today marks game eight in the EuroBasket 2013 Qualifications and with only nine teams assured of spots in the Finals next September in Slovenia, the possible scenarios for which teams are going to grab the last seven spots are complex and many. Here are some possibilities for teams to qualify today… Group A (They play…
Read MoreLins adds another victory in the Paulista Championship
Lins has won for the second time in the Paulista Championship of Sao Paulo Province, Brazil, beating Raizen 84-81 in a really tight game The best players of the game were Biro with 21 points, Fernando Henrique and Lucian Matao with 13 points for the home team (Lins) and Douglas Gorauskas with 19 points and…
Read MoreFIBA 3×3 Madrid Tips off today
The final FIBA 3×3 Masters event is set to tip off today at 15:00 (GMT +2) today in Madrid with 15 teams gunning for 12,000 Euros in prize money for the champions and a trip to Miami, FL for the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final. The second place team will take home a cool 5,000…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Four more qualify, eight to go
Coming in to today’s EuroBasket 2013 Qualifiers four teams had their chance to earn spots, unfortunately, only Germany was able to take advantage, but three more, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Czech Republic, were able to pick up theirs after various losses in and out of Groups assured teams they’d finish no lower than…
Read MoreCADER moves on to playoffs after beating Urunday University in Uruguay
CADER beat Urunday University and reached the number one spot for the playoffs by doing so. The game was controlled mainly by CADER, which managed to win three of the four periods. The game was pretty even the first quarter, Wilkerson and Mackiewicz playing strong in the restricted zone for Urunday while Bertolini shot 3-pointers…
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