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Mammoth meeting in today's FIBA U19 Women final
A true clash of titans happens in the FIBA U19 World Championship for Women today with still-undefeated Spain taking on Team USA at 6pm Bangkok time (11am GMT, 1pm CET). The Spanish ladies handed the red, white and blues their only loss of the tournament (and its first since 2001) when Spain overcame the USA […]
U18 Finals: France vs. Serbia; consolation match pits Valanciunas vs. Kanter
Over in France in the U18 European Championship Men, it’ll be France and Serbia duking it out in the finals today after both squads used teamwork to overcome a potentially devastating individual performance. Team France held off Lithuania, 68-63, again allowing the opposition to claw its way back in the fourth quarter yet holding on […]
Betting on basketball: BetOnBet odds, lines for under-18 semifinals
The FIBA U18 European Championship Men is into the semifinal round, and Ball in Europe sponsor BetonBet.com has released a number of odds, lines and proposition bets on today’s elimination games and qualifiers; the following are a few of the odds currently available at the sportsbook website. Other betting options are available for some games […]
Final Four set at U18 European championship: Turkey, Serbia, Lithuania, France
The FIBA U18 European Championship Men tips off its semifinal round with four teams keeping title hopes alive: Lithuania, Serbia, Turkey, and France. All the teams played the quarterfinals games yesterday, with Turkey pulling off the notable upset over Spain. Today’s games pit Turkey against Serbia at 6pm CET and Lithuania against France at 8.15pm. […]
Betting on basketball: Sporting Bet odds, lines for U18s quarterfinals
The FIBA U18 European Championship Men has entered the quarterfinal round, with Euroleague/Ball in Europe sponsor SportingBet.com releasing a number of odds and lines on today’s games; the following are the odds and the match handicap (or the good old-fashioned pointspread as they call it in America).
Elite eight tip off today in FIBA U19 World Championship for Women
Down in Thailand, the FIBA U19 World Championship for Women enters the homestretch as elimination rounds begin with the elite eight remaining. The good news for European basketball fans: Four European teams – France, Russia, Spain and Lithuania – are still alive in the competition.
Team Spain unleashed … i mean, presented
No matter how the whole Minnesota Timberwolves/DKV Joventut thing works out, the 2009-10 international basketball season will be, to some extent, The Year of Ricky Rubio. Rubio was yesterday officially presented with the FIBA Europe award for 2008 Young Men’s Player of the Year by FIBA Europe secretary-general Nar Zanolin. Aside from bestowing Rubio with […]
Spain backcourt for EuroBasket 2009 takes another hit
Though Spain is reckoned one of the clear favorites to win FIBA EuroBasket 2009, the team is rapidly becoming a shadow of its ideal self, as Unicaja swingman Berni Rodriguez will be sitting out the tournament alongside Toronto Raptors point guard Jose Calderon. Team Spain official stated the ankle injury suffered by Rodriguez during last […]
FIBA U20 men's standouts: Where are they going?
I love it when a plan comes together. David Hein, he of heinnews.com, FIBAEurope.com and probably 10,000 other outlets, has wrapped coverage of the just-completed FIBA U20 European Championship Men. Having returned home to Germany from the competition in Rhodes, poor David sought ideas (more of them, i mean) for another basketball column to which […]
Doomed Britannia? Deng will not play in Eurobasket 2009
Bad news for fledging Team Great Britain’s Eurobasket 2009 chances: Luol Deng joins former Chicago Bulls teammate Ben Gordon in the “out” category. Deciding that his stress fracture injury has not yet properly healed, Deng decided to sit this one out. Gordon decided as early as last August that he wouldn’t be joining the makeshift […]
FIBA Women's U19: All European squads advance; Spain stays undefeated
Five out of five: Can’t do much better than that, and today fans in all five European nations sending teams to the FIBA U19 World Championships for Women can see their ladies playing in the second pool round, which tips off today. Group E sees the Czech Republic, France and Lithuania grouped with Argentina, Australia […]
FIBA U20s: Greece, France, Spain on the podium
The 2009 edition of the FIBA U20 European Championship Men is in the books, with unstoppable Greece topped France thanks to five starters scoring in double figures for the gold medal. For the bronze, Spain barely held off yet another comeback from surprising Team Italy to win. FIBA roundups follow.