Türkiye Basketball: Euro Champs Semifinals Run

The Turkish national basketball team won the quarter-finals against Poland at the European Championship. Turkey has been in the semi -finals for the first time in 24 years Basketball-EM. Most recently, Turkey had succeeded in the 2001 EM.

The Turkish team around the NBA star Alperen Şengün from the Houston Rockets won the quarter-finals in Riga with 91:77 (46:32). In front of almost 3,500 spectators, Şengün get a triple double from 19 points, twelve rebounds and ten assists. For Poland, Jordan Loyd (As Monaco) and Mateusz Ponitka (Bahçeşehir Koleji) each came to 19 points.

With the defeat, Poland missed the opportunity to reach the semi -finals at the second tournament in a row. In 2022, the Polish team was able to move into the round of the last four before lost in the game for third place against Germany.

Germany on Wednesday in the quarter -finals against Slovenia

The German team meets the winner of the game between Finland and Georgia on Wednesday in the quarter -finals in Slovenia and, in the case of a victory, in the semi -finals on Friday. The Türkiye If this would be a possible final opponent of the Germans, it would first have to compete against the winner of the game between Lithuania and Greece. Germany and Turkey have so far been unbeaten at this year’s European Championship.

The greatest European Championship success in Türkiye so far was second place at the 2001 championship, in the final of which the hosts at that time lost to Yugoslavia. Poland had become second in 1963 and reached third place three times. Germany last achieved an European Championship victory in 1993, in 2005 the German basketball players came in second place.