With a year to go to Tokyo 2020, Great Britain and England point guard Georgia Jones reflects on GB’s success at Women’s EuroBasket 2019 – and looks forward to achieving even more after the team secured entry to the Olympic qualifying tournament. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.I am …
The Great Britain men’s and women’s teams for the Fiba 3×3 Under-18 Euope Cup qualifier have been confirmed. The event will take place in Rieti, Italy on August 3 and 4. The men, led by GB veteran Gareth Murray will play Spain, Serbia and the Netherlands in Pool B. The women, led by Renee Busch, join …
GB Men will play in a testing qualifying group for EuroBasket 2021 as long as they get through their pre-qualifiers in August. If they are successful in their home-and-away showdowns against Luxembourg and Kosovo next month, they will progress to face Germany, France and Montenegro in qualifying Group G. There they must avoid finishing bottom …
Less than a month after GB’s EuroBasket Women semi-final v France, the draw for the 2021 EuroBasket Women qualifiers took place in Munich as the teams begin preparations for the next set of qualifiers. GB Women have been drawn in Group F, one of three groups to contain just three teams, alongside Belarus and Poland. …
GB U18 Men’s Head Coach, Alan Keane, has named the final 12 players who will represent GB at this Summer’s FIBA U18 European Championships. The squad will travel to Greece tomorrow ahead of the tournament’s tip off in Volos on July 27th. Germany, Serbia and Turkey await the side in Group A as 16 teams …
GB U20 Men finished in 8th position at the FIBA European Championships, following a spirited loss to Croatia by 82-63 in a play-off game to determine the final team positions of the tournament. Croatia started strongly and looked every inch the favourites as they took a quick 7-0 advantage, helped by GB committing two early fouls. A quick GB time-out helped get them organised and Niall Harris soon got GB’s first points to make it 7-2. A fast-break opportunity …
GB’s hopes of a possible medal in this FIBA tournament were dashed 56-81 by a strong German performance in Tel Aviv this afternoon. The strength of the German inside play, with Philip Herkenhoff and Nils Hassfurther to the fore, produced enough easy scores at the offensive end and stops at the defensive end to keep …
The first half was a closely contested battle but it was GB who got the better of the Serbians by the halftime buzzer. GB came out with a strong start taking the first quarter against the Serbians 17-15, using their speed and athleticism to get out in transition for quick buckets. Romario Spence and Nathan …
The GB U20 Men suffered a close loss to Montenegro 72-68 in their final game of the European Championship group stage. The result leaves Karl Brown’s team bottom of Group A with an 0-3 record. GB came out aggressively to start the game, attacking the hoop and hitting some knock down three pointers to take …
GB U20 Women’s Head Coach, Jeff Jones, has today named his training roster ahead of August’s European Championships in Serbia. The players are currently in Manchester as the team begins preparations at the National Basketball Performance Centre. The team will then head to Greece at the end of the month for two warm up games …
GB U20 Men fell 60-74 to France in their second group game of the European Championships. The result leaves Karl Brown’s team bottom of Group A, with Montenegro to play in the final group game tomorrow. Kareem Queeley (16 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists) got the first basket of the game, followed by Romario Spence …
Great Britain picked up their third win of the Under-18 Women’s EuroBasket Division B by beating Norway 55-40 in Skopje with a confident display. After earlier victories over Albania and North Macedonia, coach Len Busch’s team scored another success in their final game to finish the tournament on a high. It means they take 19th place …
