Mateusz Ponitka starred with 24 points, 9 assists, 6 rebounds and 4 blocks for a huge efficiency valuation of 38 in the win.<\/p>\n
Round<\/p>\n
Opponent<\/p>\n
Score<\/p>\n
Second Round<\/p>\n
Israel<\/p>\n
106-86<\/p>\n
First Round<\/p>\n
Netherlands<\/p>\n
92-84<\/p>\n
First Round<\/p>\n
Austria<\/p>\n
123-77<\/p>\n
First Round<\/p>\n
Latvia<\/p>\n
92-72<\/p>\n
First Round<\/p>\n
Latvia<\/p>\n
84-82<\/p>\n
First Round<\/p>\n
Netherlands<\/p>\n
85-83<\/p>\n
First Round<\/p>\n
Austria<\/p>\n
90-78<\/p>\n
The elusive 12-0 record extends beyond Europe with a number of teams finishing with just a single defeat in their respective campaigns.<\/p>\n
Lithuania and Greece both went 11-1 in Europe in the 2019 Qualifiers, while Latvia finished at 9-1 in the 2023 cycle.<\/p>\n
Qualifiers edition<\/p>\n
Closest to perfect record<\/p>\n
Only defeat<\/p>\n
2023<\/p>\n
Latvia (9-1)<\/p>\n
Serbia, 101-100<\/p>\n
2023<\/p>\n
Australia (11-1)<\/p>\n
Iran, 20-0<\/p>\n
2023<\/p>\n
Canada (11-1)<\/p>\n
Argentina, 83-72<\/p>\n
2023<\/p>\n
South Sudan (11-1)<\/p>\n
Senegal, 69-66<\/p>\n
2019<\/p>\n
Lithuania (11-1)<\/p>\n
Italy, 70-65<\/p>\n
2019<\/p>\n
Greece (11-1)<\/p>\n
Serbia, 84-61<\/p>\n
Up next for Poland? The reigning world and European champions, as they welcome Germany to Gdansk on Sunday.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW (Poland) – Poland are inching closer to securing their spot at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-870718","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\/870718","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=870718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}