Nick Mcglynn signs with Leuven, he will join the team for the 2021-2022 season. Leuven Bears has strengthened itself for next season with 25-year-old American Nick McGlynn. The 2m03 power forward/center played in NCAA with Drake College. He also played in Austria for the past two seasons, for Vienna DC Timberwolves and UBSC Graz. In…
Leuven beats Limburg, wins for Aalst and Charleroi in Euromillions Basketball league. Leuven won at home against Limburg United (35-37 and 79-68) thanks to another big game from Ryan Kriener (28 points and 6 rebounds). After big game, Spirou Charleroi won at the end of the suspense at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp (74-77). Charleroi…
Ryan Kriener signs with Leuven. Leuven signed the American center/forward Ryan Kriener (2m06). The team announced on Wednesday. Kriener, 22, played for The University of Iowa. He signed his first professional contract with the Helios Suns in the Slovenian league in August. “Ryan will join the team after the mandatory quarantine period. If everything goes…
Limburg beats Leuven after overtime, thanks to a clutch lay-up from Silas Melson. Limburg United defeated Leuven on Friday At half time it was 28-36 for Limburg. But Leuven closed the gap and it was 64-64 after 40 minutes. In the final second of overtime, Silas Melson scored the decisive layup (73-75). For Leuven, Luka…
In April, Leuven announced that Hugh Robertson‘s contract was extended for one more year. But when the Bears were supposed to resume training earlier this month, Robertson was nowhere to be found and he was unreachable. When the Bears finally reached him, he was in Egypt for personal matters. According to HLN, Roberston announced that…
According to Il Piccolo, Trieste is interested in signing Hugh Robertson, the Star of the coaches from last season. Last week, Leuven announced that they had extended Robertson’s contract for next season. If Trieste want to sign him, they’ll probably have to pay a buy-out. Last season Robertson was impressive for Leuven as he averaged…
The Leuven Bears have announced their latest additions for next season and are now complete with 9 professional players on their roster. After the re-signing of Hugh Robertson, Brandan Stith and Joshua Heath during the season and with Seppe D’espallier, Luka Kotrulja and Joris Fauconnier still under contract, Leuven has now also extended Jonas Delalieux’…
Hans Vanwijn from the Antwerp Giants has been elected as the 2019-’20 EMBL Belgian Player of the Year. In 14 games Vanwijn recorded averages of 12.8 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.9 apg, 0.5 spg & 0.4 bpg. Seppe D’espallier from the Leuven Bears has been elected as the 2019-’20 EMBL Belgian Youngster of the Year. The…
After an emergency meeting the Pro Liga and all its clubs have unanimously decided to end the competition after only 17 games played (out of 26 games in the regular season) due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Current leader Filou Oostende is thus declared as the 2019-’20 Champion, while the tickets for the European competitions next…
It’s been a long time coming for the Leuven Bears. After dangling at the bottom of the standings for the past 6 seasons the Bears are finally looking like they will reach the playoffs again. Currently sitting comfortably in 5th place in the league with their 7-6 record they are being carried by their US players…
