{"id":508325,"date":"2026-02-27T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:28:09","slug":"francisco-sinks-game-winner-to-deny-hungary-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508325\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco sinks game-winner to deny Hungary\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"_1dz8zx00 wzy8oya wzy8oy7 wzy8oy8 wzy8oy5  fiba-urcbug wzy8oyb ofves50\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.fiba.basketball\/2027-wcq-european-app-generic-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The official World Cup Qualifiers app<\/p>\n<p>Download Now<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SZOMBATHELY (Hungary) &#8211; Sylvain Francisco was the hero for France to open the second window of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Qualifiers in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The in-form guard finished with 10 points and 5 assists with his game-winning triple securing an important 74-71 win on the road against previously unbeaten Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco was only 1-of-5 from deep before ensuring there was to be no overtime drama, and puts France in a stronger position in Group H at 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>The return fixture takes place on Sunday, March 1 when France welcome Hungary in Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><a class=\"_1x7ksvib\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-basketball-world-cup-2027-european-qualifiers\/news\/watch-now-francisco-sinks-game-winner-to-deny-hungary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>Report<\/p>\n<p>Hungary 71-74 France<\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official World Cup Qualifiers app Download Now SZOMBATHELY (Hungary) &#8211; Sylvain Francisco was the hero for France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-508325","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\/508325","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=508325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}