{"id":156384,"date":"2025-09-20T10:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156384\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:37:04","slug":"paok-bursaspor-reggio-emilia-antwerp-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156384\/","title":{"rendered":"PAOK, Bursaspor, Reggio Emilia, Antwerp move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops team\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/fiba-champions-league\/1870474\/paok-bursaspor-reggio-emilia-antwerp-move-forward\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 Basketball Champions League Qualifiers began Friday (19\/9) in Samokov, Bulgaria as 24 teams are divided into three Qualificarion Round Tournaments, looking to book a spot in the regular season<\/p>\n<p>The Windrose Giants Antwerp tipped off the Qualification Round Tournament 2 action by beating CSM CSU Raiffeisen Oradea 79 \u2013 71 on the road to advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Murray scored 20 points and Andrew Funk had 16 points for the winning side that outplayed its hosts 30 \u2013 12 in the third quarter to enter the fourth period with a 64 \u2013 49 advantage. Oradea tried to come back but a 4-point play by Murray with the score 70 \u2013 75 and 1:34 to play pushed his opponents back for good.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy,\u00a0Pallacanestro Reggiana downed\u00a0KK Pelister Bitola 99 \u2013 87. Kwan Cheatham led a balanced effort for the Reggiana with 20 points and five rebounds while Jayle Barford contributed 19 points plus five boards.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Bracy-Davis (20 points, six rebounds) and C.J. Wilson (18 points, five assists) stood out from Bitola.<\/p>\n<p>A solid defensive performance for 30 minutes pushed Bursaspor Basketbol past\u00a0Lowen Braunschweig 81 \u2013 74. Bryant Crawford paced the offense for the hosts with 19 points and six assists.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Obiesie provided Braunschweig with 20 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of PAOK Thessaloniki fans traveled to Samokov and watched their beloved team defeat SC Derby 79 \u2013 67. Five players scored in double figures from Jure Zdovc\u2019s squad with Ben Moore (17 points, six rebounds) leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Emir Hadzibegovic (15 points, five rebounds) was the top performer from SC Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The Tournament 2 Semifinals:<\/p>\n<p>PAOK Thessaloniki \u2013 Bursaspor<\/p>\n<p>Pallacanestro Reggiana \u2013\u00a0Windrose Giants Antwerp<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the tournament will qualify to the regular season and participate in Group C, together with Joventut Badalona, Hapoel Holon and Cholet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net The 2025-26 Basketball Champions League Qualifiers began Friday (19\/9) in Samokov, Bulgaria as 24 teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-156384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156384","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=156384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}