French LFB squad Lyon has signed French point guard Bintou Dieme, her former team Villeneuve d’Ascq covering newspaper La Voix Du Nord indicates (via Catch & Shoot). Read More »
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Feed SubscriptionFrance names candidates and plans for U20 European Championship and U19 World Championship
French Basketball Federation has released two lists of candidates for Youth National Teams this summer – U20 National Team that will play in European Championship and U19 National Team that will play in World Championship. U20 National Team has fifteen candidates among whom 14 are or will be 20 in this year and only one is a seventeen year old ... Read More »
Villineuve d’Ascq sign Djene Diawara
French club Villeneuve d’Ascq has announced (via Catch&Shoot) the signing of Malian center with French passport Djene Diawara for two seasons. Read More »
France routs Italy for the third time, Slovak Republic downs Serbia
France posted third rout of Italy in as many games. France pulled away from Italy with a 13-0 run to end the first quarter. By the fourth quarter their lead reached 33 points. Sandrine Gruda led France this time with 19 points, Endene Miyem had 17 points. Francesca Dotto was the top Italian player with 9 points. Serbia lost the ... Read More »
Two wins in two days for France and Latvia
France routed Italy for the second time in two days, this time holding them to 39 points. Italians finished the game better than they played it for most part – they scored 23 points in the first 30 minutes of regulation. Ana Cata Chitiga led France with 12 points. Endene Miyem had 11, Marielle Amant – 8. Gaia Gorini led ... Read More »
France routs Italy, Latvia gets first win against Netherlands
EuroBasket Women 2013 hosts France opened their pre-tournament games with a convincing win over another EBW participant Italy. France made their big run in the second half of second quarter. After Italy pulled within one point they outscored them 13-1 in the final 5+ minutes of the half. In the third quarter France didn’t allow Italy to get the deficit ... Read More »
France cuts 4 players – 16 remain
French NT head coach Pierre Vincent has decided to cut Sara Chevaugeon, Laetitia Kamba, Paoline Salagnac and Isabelle Strunc. Read More »
Charleville-Mezieres sign Lithuanian power forward Giedre Paugaite
French club Charleville-Mezieres has signed Lithuanian power forward Giedre Paugaite, the player confirmed to delfi.lt. Read More »
Arras preparing for playing in LFB, have 5 players under contract
While their participation in the league will be officially confirmed in 10 days, Arras president has revealed that the team has been asked to prepare for playing in French highest league. He also confirmed that the team has five players already lined up for the next season – American guard Dawn Evans, French post Floriane Herrscher, forward Aurelie Carmona, guards Elodie ... Read More »
Charleville-Mezieres re-sign Amel Bouderra, Ekaterina Dimitrova and Yacine Sene
French club Charleville-Mezieres has announced the re-signing of guards Ekaterina Dimitrova and Amel Bouderra as well as forward Yacine Sene. Read More »
Aix-en-Provence about to withdraw from French league after 32 seasons (Updated)
According to La Provence, French club Aix-en-Provence is about to withdraw from the French league if a miracle doesn’t happen by tomorrow night. Read More »
Tarbes GB sign Katelan Redmon
French club Tarbes GB has re-published a Catch&Shoot report about the team signing American forward Katelan Redmon, thus apparently confirming it. Read More »
Tarbes GB ink Croatian power forward Mirna Mazic
French club Tarbes GB has signed Croatian power forward Mirna Mazic, her agent informs. Read More »
Nantes Reze sign Cayla Francis and Shamela Hampton, re-sign six players
French club Nantes Reze held a press conference today which was covered by Catch&Shoot. Read More »
Lattes Montpellier re-sign Geraldine Robert and Fatimatou Sacko
French Cup winner Lattes Montpellier have re-signed forwards Geraldine Robert and Fatimatou Sacko for the upcoming season, l’Equipe (via Catch&Shoot) writes. Read More »
Basket Landes re-sign Kamila Stepanova, sign Naura El Gargati
As Basket Landes president has confirmed to Sud Oest that his team has re-signed Czech post Kamila Stepanova and signed French center Naura El Gargati. Read More »
Fenerbahce sign Isabelle Yacoubou and Tugce Canitez
Turkish club Fenerbahce has announced the signings of French center Isabelle Yacoubou, Turkish forward Tugce Canitez and, already previously reported, Quanitra Hollingsworth. Read More »
Lattes Montpellier win the French Cup
Lattes Montpellier capped their season with a win in French Cup, defeating Nantes Reze. Nantes started the game better, going up seven points in the first quarter. By the middle of the second that lead was gone and Montpellier took over the lead that they would not give up. In the third quarter BLMA lead reached 13 points. Nantes rallied, ... Read More »
French NT roster down to 20
Pierre Vincent and his assistants have cut down the French NT roster down to 20 with eleven cuts. Read More »
Ingrid Tanqueray and Gunta Basko-Melnbarde to play for Lattes-Montpellier next season
According to Midi Libre (via unofficial BLMA website), two of the newcomers for Lattes-Montpellier next season will be French PG Ingrid Tanqueray and Latvian forward Gunta Basko-Melnbarde. Read More »
Bourges Basket sign Paoline Salagnac and Marianna Tolo, re-sign Jo Leedham
Newly crowned French league have signed French wing Paoline Salagnac and Australian center Marianna Tolo for the upcoming season, Le Berry writes. Read More »
Twelfth French League title for Bourges Basket
Bourges Basket came back from losing the only finals game at home by taking two on the road at Montpellier and winning their twelfth French league title. Bourges led throughout the game. In first quarter their lead was 6 points, from the second quarter on it was around ten points. Montpellier shot miserable 30% from the field, while also being ... Read More »
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