Great Britain’s Under-20 Men continue their Division A Fiba European Championship preparations this week, as they head to Italy for a practice tournament. The five-day event comes after a brief training camp at the National Basketball Performance Centre in Manchester, where coach Karl Brown put the squad through their paces. With the tournament complete, the …
Details GB v Montenegro FIBA Women’s EuroBasket Monday 1st July, 19:00 tip Arena Riga Intro GB face Montenegro for a place in the quarter finals of FIBA’s Women’s EuroBasket after last night’s win over Ukraine secured 2nd place in Group A. With the latter stages of this year’s tournament taking place in Belgrade, a flight …
With everything to play for in the last game of the group stages of EuroBasket, the main question was who wanted to advance more, GB or Ukraine? In the end it was GB, demonstrating teamwork, hustle, and playing to their many strengths, that saw them advance to the play-offs in a memorable victory. In the …
Details Ukraine v GB FIBA Women’s EuroBasket Sunday 30th June, 11:00 tip Arena Riga Intro GB conclude the group stages of the 2019 FIBA Women’s EuroBasket this afternoon as they face Ukraine at Arena Riga. It’s a tight group after two games, with three teams still able to claim the automatic quarter final place, whilst …
The GB U18 Women continue their FIBA European Championship preparations today as they fly out to Greece for a pair of valuable warm up games before embarking on their European Championships campaign in Macedonia in early July. The pre-tournament prep in Greece caps off an intense two weeks of training camp at the National Basketball …
GB Women showed the reigning EuroBasket Champions Spain that they mean business in the competition as they pushed them all the way in the second game of the group stages. Following last night’s morale-boosting victory against Latvia, on paper GB Women looked to have their work cut out for them against a powerful Spanish side. Both teams started the game slowly, …
Details Spain v GB FIBA Women’s EuroBasket Friday 28th June, 19:00 tip Arena Riga Intro GB Women face Spain tonight in the second game of EuroBasket Group B. The team will be looking to build on yesterday’s win over hosts Latvia. The two sides will be familiar with each other having met last week in …
This weekend will see the second instalment of the Maggie Forber Invitational Basketball Tournament after its inception a year ago. The event in Manchester will provide GB U16 Girls Head Coach Kenrick Liburd with another opportunity to continue shaping his side after taking part in the Pauline Prior International Challenge in Nottingham last April. Coach …
GB Women’s basketball team overcame a partisan home crowd of 2,900 spectators, plus a second quarter fight back from the home team, to start their 2019 EuroBasket campaign with a convincing 74-60 win over Latvia. Latvia got the home crowd going with the first four points of the game before GB’s Jo Leedham-Warner got GB …
Details GB v Latvia FIBA Women’s EuroBasket Thursday 27th June, 16:30 tip Arena Riga Intro GB Women begin their 2019 FIBA Women’s EuroBasket campaign with a game against the hosts Latvia in Riga this evening. The team come into the game in great form, adding a brilliant display v Spain and a win over Sweden …
GB Basketball tip off their 2019 FIBA Women’s EuroBasket campaign when they face hosts Latvia at Arena Riga tomorrow evening. Group A will see GB face Latvia, Ukraine and Spain in Riga over the next four days. The structure of the event means only the winner progresses directly to Belgrade, with teams placed second and …
GB Women completed their EuroBasket Women preparation in Fuenlabrada last night as they suffered a narrow defeat to World number two ranked Spain. Despite the defeat, GB will take great confidence from the game in which they went toe to toe with the Olympic silver medallists. The two teams will meet again in Riga later …
