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First wins for Czech Republic and Serbia

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Serbian NT won their first pretournament game in four tries by the defeating Belgium, who won’t be playing in EuroBasket Women 2013. In their fourth pretournament game thus far, Serbia ran out to a 14 point lead at halftime and held on to it in the second half. Jelena Milovanovic led Serbia with 19 points, Bojana Vulic, Jovana Popovic and ... Read More »

Belfius Namur re-sign Djenebou Sissoko

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Belgian champions and cup owners have announced on their twitter account they have re-signed Malian center Djenebou Sissoko. Sissoko averaged 19.2 points, 11.8 rebounds per game last season in Belgium. Read More »

Belfius Namur win the Belgian Cup

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Belfius Namur won their second hardware in short succession as they were crowned the winners of Belgian Cup. After trailing for most of first half, Namur took over the lead near the end of the half. In the third quarter their lead reached 9 points. In the fourth it was even 10 points, before Kangoeroes cut it down to four ... Read More »

Belfius Namur win the Belgian league title in OT drama

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Belfius Namur defeated Kangoeroes-Boom in the deciding third game of the best of three series in overtime. Kangoeroes Jasmina Rosseel tied the title deciding game with a three pointer with seconds in regulation to force an overtime. Prior to that Belfius Namur had held the lead in the game for almost all of the game and they held a 10 ... Read More »

Emma Meesseman to go to Mystics camp in May

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Young Belgian post player Emma Meesseman, who was selected 19th overall by the Washington Mystics, has decided to not wait a year or two and to head over to Washington this summer, basketfeminin confirms. Read More »

WNBA 2013 Draft completed with 5 internationals

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There were no major surprises in 2013 draft in terms of impact players. Baylor’s Brittney Griner went first overall to Phoenix Mercury. She was soon followed by Elena Delle Donne and Skylar Diggins. As was predicted the first international layer to be selected was Canadian center from Syracuse Kayla Alexander. She went to San Antonio Silver Stars eight overall. In ... Read More »

Belfius Namur claim the first game in Belgian finals

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Belfius Namur outscored their opponents Kangoeroes-Boom 17-2 in the final three minutes of the game to claim a win in the first game. Kangoeroes held a 46-42 lead late in the fourth quarter in what was a very close game up until then. Than it all went south fast for them. Djenebou Sissoko and Julie Wojta led Belfius with 23 ... Read More »

Round-Up: Second Round of Semifinals in Belgian League – Kangoeroes-Boom and Belfius Namur advance to final

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Both semifinal series in Belgium have ended with sweeps. Declercq’s Anne Sophie Strubbe hit her only three pointer in the game with dozen seconds remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime where her team would eventually fall to Kangoeroes-Boom. Kangoeroes went on a 10-1 run in the extra frame to secure the victory. Jasmina Rosseel led Kangoeroes-Boom with 23 points, ... Read More »

Round-Up: First Round of Semifinals in Belgian League

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Home teams took the first games of the semifinals in Belgian league. Kangoeroes-Boom outscored Declercq Stortbeton by 15 points after leading by as much as 28 points over the course of the game. Sofie Hendrickx led her Kangoeroes squad with 21 points on 10 of 15 shooting. Dutch-Canadian guard Jenelle Bekkering had 18 points in the win. Julie Vanloo led ... Read More »

Round-Up: Second Round of Quarterfinals in Belgian League

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Quarterfinals were finished this week with all four winners in round one completing their sweeps. Closest games of the four was between Point Chaud Sprimont and Sint-Katelijne-Waver. A 21-0 run got SKW a 20 point lead which PCS reduced to two points in the final quarter, but it took too much out of PCS and they fell back where they ... Read More »

Round-Up: First Round of Quarterfinals in Belgian League

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Over the weekend the best of three quarterfinals in Belgian league tipped off. The higher seeded teams hosted the first round and they all were victorious. Regular season leaders Belfius Namur Capitale defeated Basket Groot Willebroek with the biggest margin of the round. Djenebou Sissoko led Namur with 23 points, Julie Wojta had 21 points and 12 rebounds. Second placed Kangoeroes-Boom ... Read More »