TBILISI (Georgia) – The Group Phase of FIBA U16 EuroBasket 2025 is now in the books, with the knockout stages to begin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
On the final day of group action, France, T\u00fcrkiye, Spain, and Latvia remained unbeaten, with the Spaniards needing a basket from Guillem Tazo with 47.3 seconds left to beat Serbia, and Lithuania secured an overtime win in a thriller over Israel, thanks to a free throw from Gabrielius Buivydas with 6.3 seconds left.<\/p>\n
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Lithuania edge past Israel in an overtime classic<\/p>\n
You can stay up to date with the tournament and check out the latest results<\/a>, group standings<\/a>, and competition system<\/a> for all the information you need.<\/p>\n Key Storylines<\/p>\n Lithuania outlasts Israel in overtime thriller;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Guillem Tazo wins it for Spain against Serbia;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Round of 16 commences on Tuesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Top Performers<\/p>\n Petar Bjelica<\/b><\/a> tinkered with a triple-double for Serbia, but his efforts were not enough as Spain went 3-0 in Group C with a narrow 97-95<\/a> win. Bjelica had 18 points, 13 rebounds, and 7 assists for an efficiency rating of 33 in a thriller that went down to the wire.<\/p>\n Germany ticked the win column for the first time at the U16 EuroBasket with an 85-65<\/a> victory over hosts Georgia, who ended winless from their first three games. Taking centre-stage was Paul-Julius Plato<\/b><\/a>, who had 21 points and 7 rebounds. The skilled power forward also had 3 steals and 2 blocks to stuff his statline.<\/p>\n Nikola Kusturica<\/b><\/a> had a game-high 27 points in Serbia’s loss to Spain in their Group C encounter. He shot 52 percent from the field and drained three triples for good measure, but his side agonisingly fell short.<\/p>\n Israel suffered heartbreak in their game against Lithuania, losing 82-81<\/a> in a breathtaking contest that required an overtime session. Tom Aronov<\/b><\/a> had 21 points, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals before fouling out, leaving everything out on the floor, earning himself an efficiency rating of 25.<\/p>\n After a close first 20 minutes, T\u00fcrkiye upped the gears and blew past Estonia with a 52-16 second half to win 94-55<\/a>, securing a 3-0 record in Group A. Real Madrid prodigy Omer Kutluay<\/b><\/a> showed his class, shooting 58 percent from the field for 21 points and 4 assists for a rating of 24.<\/p>\n Results of the DayGroup A<\/p>\n Israel 81-82<\/a> Lithuania (OT) Group B<\/p>\n Slovenia 59-85<\/a> France Group C<\/p>\n Georgia 65-85<\/a> Germany Group D<\/p>\n Greece 57-66<\/a> Italy Round of 16<\/p>\n T\u00fcrkiye vs Finland FIBA<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TBILISI (Georgia) – The Group Phase of FIBA U16 EuroBasket 2025 is now in the books, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-334064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nEstonia 55-94<\/a> T\u00fcrkiye<\/p>\n
\nSwitzerland 74-62<\/a> Finland<\/p>\n
\nSerbia 95-97<\/a> Spain<\/p>\n
\nRomania 82-92<\/a> Latvia<\/p>\n
\nLithuania vs Switzerland
\nSlovenia vs Israel
\nFrance vs Estonia
\nSpain vs Romania
\nSerbia vs Greece
\nItaly vs Germany
\nLatvia vs Georgia<\/p>\n