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Author: Sven De Bolster

Belgian Student-Athletes in the USA

Power Ranking: Belgian Student-Athletes in USA

1) Andy van vliet official (William & Mary – NCAA): 41.0 rtpg2) Steven Verplancken Jr. (Glenville State – NCAA2): 33.2 rtpg3) Camara Toumani (Georgia – NCAA): 12.4 rtpg4) Nicolas Dierynck (Central Maine – NJCAA): 12.1 rtpg5) Romain Boxus (Hartford – NCAA): 5.1 rtpg6) Alan Kikwaki (Iowa Lakes – NJCAA2): 4.8 rtpg David Bea Mulumba (Concord…

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It’s like they’re trying to destroy Belgian Basketball

After all the issues we’re having in our First Division (EuroMillions Basketball) Basketball Belgium has now announced that they are stopping their contract with Genius Sports, effective immediately. Meaning that for the rest of the season we will no longer have any kind of statistics for TDM1 and TDW1, seriously diminishing the visibility and growth of these…

Belgian Players Abroad

Player Profile: Quentin Serron

A day after his birthday Quentin Serron and SIG Strasbourg have announced that they are parting ways. With the addition of Gerry Blakes and Devonte Upson Strasbourg has acquired 2 new foreign players these past couple of days, putting them over the limit of 6 foreigners allowed. And so the club had to cut one…

National Teams

The opening window of the EuroBasket 2021

The opening window of the EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers has given us a surprising look into the strength of our Belgian Lions. Despite practically missing their starting line-up with Sam Van Rossom (injury/Euroleague), Ismael Bako (Euroleague), Jean Salumu (injury), Manu Lecomte (injury) and Hans Vanwijn (injury) – as well as youngster Vrenz Bleijenbergh (injury) – for…

National Teams

EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers

The Belgian Lions remain perfect in this opening window of the EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers as they defeated Denmark with the 72-88 final score. Our Lions were again very dominant this game throughout the opening three quarters, thanks to their lights-out shooting from behind the arc with Tabu in particular putting on a show with his…

National Teams

Riding the wave

After the amazing successes of our Belgian Cats it was now up to our Belgian Lions to put Belgian Basketball on the map. And in this first game of the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers they did just that by defeating number 8 in the world Lithuania with the convincing 86-65 final score. Although we can’t…

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TDM1: Top Rebounders

1) Mattias Palinckx (Melco Ieper): 10.7 rpg2) Bert Van de Broek (Oxaco bbc): 9.2 rpg3) Jean-Patrick Nyamsi (Royal IV Brussels): 8.1 rpg4) Rik Van den Berghe (LDP Donza): 8.1 rpg5) Bryan Anthony De Valck (Gembo BBC): 7.8 rpg

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TDM1: Top Passers

1) Niels Van den Eynde (BC GUCO LIER): 4.6 apg2) Olivier Maes (Basket Sijsele): 4.4 apg3) Laurent Lhôte (Wanty Gent Hawks): 4.3 apg4) Sam Hemeleers (Melco Ieper): 3.6 apg5) Rochdi Benzouien (Royal IV Brussels): 3.5 apg

Belgian Players Abroad

Player Profile: Manu Lecomte

With the first window of EuroBasket 2021 pre-qualification games coming up this Friday and Monday our Belgian Lions have assembled in Mons this week to prepare for their match-ups against Lithuania and Denmark. Unfortunately they will have to do it without Point Guard Manu Lecomte. Lecomte left his club Murcia to join the Lions’ pre-selection…

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Some changes at Brussels

Head Coach Serge Crevecoeur is out and will finish the season with Gravelines (France D1). Assistant Coach Monier will finish the season in charge of Brussels. Jonathan Augustin-Fairell has also left the club. To replace him they have acquired 2m01 tall Forward Jordan Tolbert. Tolbert will enter his 4th season as a Pro after spending last season…