VIDEO ⟩ French basketball players unbelievably save themselves from a loss and are the first to enter the EC quarterfinals

In the Turkish national team, Bugrahan Tuncers scored 22 points, while Furkans Korkmaz stood out with 18 points.

France will face the winner of the duel between Serbia and Italy in the quarter-finals.

Today at 3:45 p.m. Slovenia and Belgium will compete, at 7:00 p.m. Germany will face Montenegro, and in the last match of the day at 9:45 p.m. Spain will face the national team of Lithuania, while the other four round of 16 duels will be played on Sunday.

After the round-robin matches, the top four teams in each group entered the playoffs. The teams of groups A and B, as well as the best teams of groups C and D, will meet in the round of 16.

This is the fourth time that the European Men’s Finals have been played in four different countries.

In 2017, the players of the Slovenian national team became European basketball champions, becoming champions for the first time. Slovenia, which defeated Latvia in the quarter-finals, defeated Serbia in the final. In the fight for third place, Spain beat Russia.

The Latvian national team has participated in the finals of the European Championship 14 times, but this time they failed to qualify for the finals, remaining in the last place in Group H behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece and Bulgaria.

The European Championship takes place from September 1 to 18.

The next European Championship will take place in three years, with Riga hosting one of the subgroups and the elimination tournament.

This final tournament was supposed to take place in 2021, but since the Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the continent’s strongest basketball players are also gathering a year later.