Each summer our National Youth Teams get into action at EuroBasket in their quest for the medals. We’ve followed all the tournaments closely and reported on them on our social media channels all throughout the past two months. With the tournaments now all in the books we’ve decided to give a little overview here of…
With the Regular Season in Top Divison Men over and done with, we a TIB have selected our award winners. TDM1 Player of the Year: Mathieu Coucke TDM1 Youngster of the Year: Matteo Verstraete TDM1 First Team: PG: Sacha De Vreught (Woluwe): 13.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 8.0 apg, 1.9 spg, 0.0 bpg (TIB Rating: 25.5)…
Self-Styled as the new up- and coming league with a focus on the development of young talent, the BNXT League has the lofty ambition of improving and securing the future of Belgian and Dutch Basketball. Now in its 4th season we at TIB figured it was about time to see exactly how this is playing…
After their promotion to the A-Division last summer, our U18 Belgian Lions came to this year’s European Championship with as main goal to maintain in Division A. After a strong group phase in which they defeated Croatia and Turkey – before losing to a very strong Germany – they moved to the Group of 16…
It was a rough game for our U18 Belgian Lions as they faced Greece for a possible place in the Quarter-Finals of the U18 European Championship (Div. A). For 34 minutes Greece seemed to be in total control as the Belgian offense struggled, shooting a very low percentage from behind the arc, while our big…
At the U18 European Championship our U18 Lions were able to survive a rough second half to get away with the 73-77 victory against Turkey. Belgium got off to a hot start and quickly ran out to a 14-21 lead to finish out the opening quarter. Our youngsters remained in control in the second quarter…
At the U18 European Championship (Div. A) in Tampere, Finland, our U18 Belgian Lions got off to an excellent start, overpowering Croatia on their way to a 87-71 victory. Belgium got off to an iffy start of the game though and saw Croatia open up with a 2-11 run before our boys got into their…
