{"id":56366,"date":"2025-08-09T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56366\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:46:09","slug":"hungary-serbia-advance-to-division-b-final-to-seal-promotion-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56366\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary, Serbia advance to Division B Final to seal promotion\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

MISKOLC (Hungary) \u2013 Serbia and Hungary booked their tickets to next year\u2019s FIBA U20 Women\u2019s EuroBasket Division A after hard-fought wins in Saturday\u2019s Semi-Finals of the Division B tournament. <\/p>\n

The two teams will meet in Sunday\u2019s Final, while Croatia and Bulgaria face off in the Third Place Game for one last chance at promotion.<\/p>\n

Hosts Hungary erased a seven-point first quarter deficit to beat Bulgaria 67-55<\/a> in the day’s first Semi-Final. After trailing 21-14 early on, Hungary would go on to outscore their opponents 53-34 the rest of the way, employing a hard-nose defensive strategy that limited their opponents to 31 percent shooting from the field.<\/p>\n

Tyra Aho led the Hungarian charge with 16 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals and a block, while Denitsa Manolova carried Bulgaria with a 20-point effort.<\/p>\n

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In the other Semi-Final, Serbia’s victory was never in doubt as they rolled to a commanding 79-58<\/a> win over Croatia. Serbia shot an astounding 14 of 32 from deep (43.8 percent), converted all 13 of their free-throw attempts, and one point held a lead of 26 points, despite losing the rebounding battle 39 to 32.<\/p>\n

Jovana Jevtovic was the picture of efficiency for her side, tallying 23 points (on 70 percent shooting) to go with 8 boards and 3 steals.<\/p>\n

Croatia never truly threatened their vaunted opponents, despite a strong effort from Olivia Vukosa, who finished with 18 points and 7 rebounds. Their hopes for promotion to Division A aren’t completely quashed, however – they will play Bulgaria in the all-important Third Place Game before the Final on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Final<\/p>\n

Serbia vs Hungary<\/p>\n

Third Place Game<\/p>\n

Croatia vs Bulgaria<\/p>\n

FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISKOLC (Hungary) \u2013 Serbia and Hungary booked their tickets to next year\u2019s FIBA U20 Women\u2019s EuroBasket Division A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-56366","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\/56366","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=56366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}