{"id":313049,"date":"2025-11-27T22:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:27:12","slug":"fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-stunned-by-lithuania-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313049\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiba World Cup 2027 qualifiers: Great Britain stunned by Lithuania in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lithuania snatched a thrilling 89-88 victory against Great Britain in their opening match of the 2027 Fiba World Cup qualifiers in London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ignas Sargiunas, who topped the scoring chart for the visitors with 27 points, bagged the decisive three-pointer in the final second to seal a remarkable comeback after GB had dominated the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marc Steutel&#8217;s side led 51-38 at the break, but Lithuania stormed back after the restart, taking the third quarter 30-16 to lead 68-67 heading into the final period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They levelled the game at 75-75 before GB&#8217;s men regained control briefly, only for guard Sargiunas to emerge as Lithuania&#8217;s hero and inflict a painful defeat on the hosts at the Copper Box Arena. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lithuania snatched a thrilling 89-88 victory against Great Britain in their opening match of the 2027 Fiba World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-313049","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\/313049","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=313049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}