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Baltic Basketball: Top 16 Set to Tip off Jan. 7
The field is set for the next stage of action in the Baltic Basketball League, as four strongest teams from each of the regular season groups will face off in the Top 16 round. The teams will be divided into four groups of four clubs each, with the two best-placed teams from each of the…
Read MoreBritish Basketball Olympic Funding Eliminated
LONDON – The Great Britain teams played in front of packed arenas at the London Olympics and didn’t back down from some of the best sides in the world. A combined nine defeats in 10 games, though, did British Basketball no favors in the eyes of UK Sport. Despite a record level of UK Sport funding of £347 million for the…
Read MoreNCAA: Duke #1, Indiana falls, Butler in Top 25
What a difference one game makes… Indiana has been the steady #1 team in the NCAA from pre-season through their first nine games and as the result of a breakdown in defense and floater by a former baseball player who walked on to a Division 1 program that had been National runners-up two years in…
Read MoreTeam Italy routs BEKO All-Stars 107:92
The best talent in the Italian SerieA took to the court at the Laurentana Forum in Biella on Sunday for the 2012-13 BEKO All-Star Game. The Italians suited up 14, the foreign squad consisted of 12 team members, nine Americans, one Nigerian, one Guinean, and one Slovanian. Prior to the All-Star Game the Bonprix 3…
Read MoreNCAA: Unranked Butler stuns #1 Indiana
Two years ago, Alex Barlow was playing basketball for the Archbishop Moeller High School team and fielding offers to play baseball at a number of Division 1 colleges. Barlow sported a batting average that hovered in the .600 range on a team that was consistently ranked in the top 100 in the country and boasts…
Read MoreEuroleague: Field for the Top 16 is finally set
Coming into Friday’s Euroleague contests there were 15 teams that knew that they would be involved in the Top 16 round that is set to begin in two weeks, on Dec., 27th. Of the six teams playing Friday, Three had secured their tickets prior to lacing up for the last game of the regular season,…
Read MoreEuroleague: CSKA Drops Regal, 1 Ticket Left
With Thursday’s Euroleague contests completed, the Top 16 clubs from three of four groups are set and 15 of the 16 teams have been determined. Friday’s games will decide the final team as Group C still needs to determine it’s fourth qualifier. Thursday’s competition couldn’t have been more thrilling as six of nine games were…
Read MoreEuroCup: Last 16 set, play begins Jan. 9
Heading into Week 6 of the 2012-13 EuroCup competition half of the Last 16 were yet to be determined, setting up a wild finish to the regular season with head-to-head games that would determine advancement, teams needing to beat point spreads and teams needing help from others. After it was all said and done, eight…
Read MoreEurochallenge: Last 16 set to tip-off January 15
The Eurochallenge regular season is in the books and the field for the Last 16 is finally set. In some groups the decision wasn’t made until the last seconds of the Week 6 games, in some, the decision was done long before today. Bottom line though, the Last 16 brackets are set with the first…
Read MoreNCAA Top 25: Illinois jumps into the top 10
At first glance at the new Associated Press and USA Today/Coaches NCAA Top 25 Men’s Basketball polls, you think you’re looking at last week’s list. Then you look closely and realize that there are in fact a couple of changes. The top nine on the USA Today poll is exactly the same as a week…
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