{"id":130564,"date":"2025-09-09T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130564\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:02:08","slug":"sengun-becomes-youngest-player-to-post-eurobasket-triple-double-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130564\/","title":{"rendered":"Sengun becomes youngest player to post EuroBasket triple-double\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RIGA (Latvia) – T\u00fcrkiye superstar Alperen Sengun made another statement in his magical FIBA EuroBasket 2025 campaign by becoming the youngest player to register a triple-double in the competition’s history. <\/p>\n

The 23-year-old center scored 19 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished out 10 assists in helping T\u00fcrkiye defeat Poland 91-77<\/a> in the Quarter-Finals – become the fifth player with a EuroBasket triple-double.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the tournament, Luka Doncic became only the fourth player since 1995 to post a triple-double in a EuroBasket game with 26 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in Slovenia’s 86-69<\/a> win over Belgium.<\/p>\n

Player<\/p>\n

Edition<\/p>\n

Age<\/p>\n

Triple-Double<\/p>\n

Alperen Sengun (TUR)<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

23<\/p>\n

19 PTS, 12 REB, 10 AST<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic (SLO)<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

26<\/p>\n

26 PTS, 10 REB, 11 AST<\/p>\n

Mateusz Ponitka (POL)<\/p>\n

2022<\/p>\n

29<\/p>\n

26 PTS, 16 REB, 10 AST<\/p>\n

Andrei Mandache (ROU)<\/p>\n

2017<\/p>\n

29<\/p>\n

14 PTS, 10 REB, 11 AST<\/p>\n

Toni Kukoc (CRO)<\/p>\n

1995<\/p>\n

26<\/p>\n

15 PTS, 12 REB, 11 AST<\/p>\n

*Stojan Vrankovic of Croatia posted a triple-double in FIBA EuroBasket 1993 which however is not taken into consideration as records of blocks before 1995 are not ratified.<\/p>\n

Sengun, who claimed TCL Player of the Game honors for his showing, is younger than any of Doncic, Mateusz Ponitka, Andrei Mandache and Toni Kukoc were when they achieved the feat. <\/p>\n

Sengun just missed a triple-double against Czechia in the second game of the tournament with 23 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists. <\/p>\n

The big man also was close in the big showdown to close the group stage against Serbia and superstar Nikola Jokic with 28 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists. <\/p>\n

FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official EuroBasket app Download Now RIGA (Latvia) – T\u00fcrkiye superstar Alperen Sengun made another statement in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-130564","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\/130564","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=130564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}