{"id":118754,"date":"2025-09-04T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:29:08","slug":"italy-finish-group-stage-with-fourth-straight-win-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118754\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy finish group stage with fourth straight win\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LIMASSOL (Cyprus) – Italy finished the Group Phase of the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 in style with a comfortable 89-64<\/a> victory over hosts Cyprus for their fourth straight win. <\/p>\n

The Italians, who were already qualified for the Round of 16 going into the game, led for nearly the entire contest for a 4-1 record in Group C. Cyprus closed their first-ever appearance at EuroBasket with a 0-5 record. <\/p>\n

Turning Point<\/p>\n

Cyprus scored the first two points of the game but their dreams of a possible shocker were immediately ended as Italy reeled off the next 19 points for a 19-2 advantage. Gianmarco Pozzecco’s team did not let up the rest of the way. <\/p>\n

TCL Player of the Game\"\"<\/p>\n

Matteo Spagnolo shined for Italy<\/p>\n

Matteo Spagnolo did a little bit of everything for the Italians as the 22-year-old scored 13 points but also grabbed 7 rebounds, dished out 5 assists and swiped 4 steals. <\/p>\n

Mouhamet Diouf was outstanding again in the post with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists and Simone Fontecchio added 13 points. Filippos Tigkas collected 15 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists in the loss and Darral Willis picked up 10 points.<\/p>\n

Stats Don’t Lie<\/p>\n

Italy committed only 6 turnovers and dished out 26 assists while out-rebounding the hosts 48 to 30, including 17 offensive rebounds. Those boards led to a 20-3 advantage in second chance points. <\/p>\n

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Filippos Tigkas showed in the tournament why is one of Cyprus’ biggest hopes in the future<\/p>\n

Bottom Line<\/p>\n

Italy will be heading to Riga on a roll with four straight wins following their tournament-opening loss to Greece. Italy still could finish first in the group depending on the result in the day’s final game between Spain and Greece, after which Italy’s opponent for the Round of 16 will be determined.<\/p>\n

With the loss, Cyprus became the third team to lose each of their games in a tournament they were hosting following Romania 2017 (five games) and Sweden in 2003 (three games). <\/p>\n

They Said <\/p>\n

This game report will be updated in the coming moments. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

For more quotes, tune in to the official post-game press conference! <\/p>\n

FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official EuroBasket app Download Now LIMASSOL (Cyprus) – Italy finished the Group Phase of the FIBA EuroBasket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-118754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118754","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=118754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}