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EuroBasket 2013: Day 1 of Round 2 full of upsets
EuroBasket 2013 has put it’s first full day of the Round 2 in the books and to say it was an interesting day would be a gross understatement. With the quality of competition that the remaining 12 teams are capable of bringing on any given day it’s no surprise that there were surprises, but the…
Read MoreUros Petrovic added by Trikala
23-year-old Serbian Uros Petrovic (205 cm) is headed to Greece this 2013-14 to play for Aries Trikala BC (A1). He spent the 2012-13 season playing in Bulgaria’s NBL for Balkan Botevgrad. In 37 games in the Bulgarian league, he averaged 11.1 ppg and 3.9 rpg. He helped his team reach the Bulgarian League semifinals in…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Round 2 set to tip off Wednesday
Wednesday will mark the opening contests of Round 2 of EuroBasket 2013, with the top three teams coming out of each of the four groups that competed in Round 1 coming together to form two new groups. At the end of the Round 2 the top four teams in each of the two groups will…
Read MoreTony Woods goes pro with Nea Kifisia
Greek A1 club AE Nea Kifisia Athens will be bringing on a rookie to strengthen their frontcourt this 2013-14 season with the addition of Tony Woods (211 cm, Oregon’13). The 23-year-old Woods spent his first two years of college at Wake Forest before transferring to Oregon in the 2011-12 season. In his senior year at…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Round 2 advancement papers given
Round 1 of EuroBasket 2013 is complete and the clubs moving on to Round 2 have been determined. Groups C and D were cut and dry with three top teams and no tiebreakers needed, but in Groups A and B the tiebreakers were complex as there were three teams tied for third place at 2-3,…
Read MoreHaralampos Giannopoulos to La Bruixa dOr
Spanish Liga Endesa team La Bruixa d’Or Manresa has added Greek player Haralampos Giannopoulos (200 cm) for the 2013-14 season. This will be Giannopoulos’ first foray outside of his home Greece. Haralampos spent 2012-13 playing for Panathinaikos Athens (Greece-A1). He played in five games for them in the Euroleague. Despite the team’s early exit in…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: OTs, Upsets, Italy stands alone
Coming into Day 4 of the EuroBasket 2013 competition, there were four undefeated teams. As the dust settled on Ljubljana, Jesenice, Celje, and Koper, Slovenia Sunday, the only club that made it out of Day 4 unblemished was Italy after their big 81:72 win over previously undefeated Greece. France knocked off unbeaten Ukraine 77:71 in…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Day 3 complete, four unbeaten
With Day 3 of EuroBasket 2013, the playoff picture is starting to unfold with only four clubs now undefeated, four without wins and eight that sit with 1-2 records. As of the completion of Day 3, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, and host club Slovenia are the sole holders of 3-0 records with Greece dominating their opponents…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: Day 1, Groups C and D
EuroBasket 2013 is underway in Slovenia with 24 teams battling for six spots in the 2014 FIBA World Cup to be held in Spain. Round 1 consists of four groups of six teams that will play each other once with the top three teams from each group moving on to the second round. Group C…
Read MoreEuroBasket 2013: A little bit of everything on Day 1
Day 1 one of EuroBasket 2013 finally tipped off and to reward hoops fans that have waited nearly a year since the draws were presented the competition was intense, surprising, and frustrating all rolled into one. After months of roster watching, player jockeying, and pre-tournament chatter, EuroBasket 2013 is finally underway, and if the first…
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