{"id":117332,"date":"2025-09-04T04:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117332\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:06:06","slug":"portugal-sweden-qualify-for-eurobasket-knockout-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117332\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal, Sweden Qualify For EuroBasket Knockout Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group-play stage of EuroBasket wrapped up for the teams in Group A and Group B on Wednesday. Those clubs concluded their initial five-game schedules as the two round-of-16 spots still up for grabs in Groups A and B were claimed by Portgual and Sweden, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal eked out a 68-65 victory over Estonia in a win-or-go-home matchup in Group A, eliminating the Estonians. Point guard Rafael Lisboa (17 points, five assists) and Celtics big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/q\/quetane01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neemias Queta<\/a> (15 points) led the way for Portugal, though Queta was ejected with 4:34 left in the third quarter after picking up his second technical foul, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/09\/portugal-overcomes-controversial-ejection-of-celtics-center-for-historic-eurobasket-win.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Robb of MassLive.com<\/a> details. The Portuguese team lost its slim lead following Queta\u2019s exit, but managed to pull back in front during a back-and-forth fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>In Group B, Montenegro missed its chance to qualify for the round of 16 by falling to Great Britain, resulting in both teams finishing the group stage with an 1-4 record. Sweden, which lost a tight 74-71 contest to Lithuania on Wednesday, also went 1-4, but earned the tiebreaker over Montenegro and Great Britain by virtue of their point differential. Heat forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/larsspe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pelle Larsson<\/a> has been the standout for Sweden so far, averaging a team-high 19.8 points per game across four outings.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/09\/nikola-vucevic-retires-from-national-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nikola Vucevic Retires From Montenegrin National Team<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The final standings for Groups A and B are now set, which means the first four matchups in the single-elimination stage are set too. The top team in Group A will play the fourth-place team in Group B, the second-place Group A team faces the third-place Group B squad, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of Turkey knocking off Serbia to claim the top spot in Group A, the round-of-16 matchups played on Saturday will be as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Turkey (A1) vs. Sweden (B4)<br \/>\nSerbia (A2) vs. Finland (B3)<br \/>\nLatvia (A3) vs. Lithuania (B2)<br \/>\nPortugal (A4) vs. Germany (B1)<\/p>\n<p>FIBA has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-eurobasket-2025\/news\/round-of-16-pairings-tip-off-times-confirmed-for-september-6-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> Saturday tip-off times for all four matchups.<\/p>\n<p>Groups C and D will wrap up their group-stage schedule on Thursday. Two spots in the round of 16 are still available in Group C, where only Greece (3-1) and Italy (3-1) have qualified so far. Spain (2-2) would advance with a win over Greece, while the winner of the Georgia (2-2) vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (2-2) will also clinch a spot in the knockout round.<\/p>\n<p>If Greece wins on Thursday, the Spaniards would need a Georgia victory in order to advance \u2014 in that scenario, both Spain and Bosnia and Herzeogvina would be 2-3, and Spain would hold the head-to-head tiebreaker. Georgia holds the tiebreaker edge over Spain.<\/p>\n<p>All four teams who will advance out of Group D are already known: Israel (3-1), Poland (3-1), France (3-1), and Slovenia (2-2) have clinched their spots. However, seeding remains in flux, with Thursday\u2019s Israel vs. Slovenia showdown looming as a crucial matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group-play stage of EuroBasket wrapped up for the teams in Group A and Group B on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,32203,71148,85],"class_list":["post-117332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-neemias-queta","tag-pelle-larsson","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}