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A Deeper Look into the Past, Present and Future: Imagine it. Every single game you play in and every arena you go to is fully packed to the brim with more than 10.000 enthusiastically chanting fans. The home-fans section is literally sending vibrations throughout the entire arena with their constant
Big news this Saturday as the BNXT League announced that there will again be a system of promotions and relegations, making things extra interesting for TDM1 teams on the Belgian side and the Promotiedivisie teams on the Dutch side. The last team of the BNXT season will relegate back to the second d
Each summer our National Youth Teams get into action at EuroBasket in their quest for the medals. We’ve followed all the tournaments closely and reported on them on our social media channels all throughout the past two months. With the tournaments now all in the books we’ve decided to give a little
With another season over and done with, we at TIB are already looking forward to the next one as we fully intend to continue what we’ve been doing since Stefaan De Vreese launched ThisIsBasketball back in 2003. Since 2012 I have joined Stefaan’s effort and have been responsible for the large majorit
With 35 regular season games behind them it eventually all came down to game 36 as 4 teams were in first place in the BNXT League standings. Out of the 4 teams it was Kangoeroes Mechelen who held the best cards. All they had to do was win their game against the last team in…
Last night the Top Division Men 1 championship came to a close as the finalists LDP Donza and BC Guco Lier confronted eachother one last time in the third and decisive game of the Finals. Here’s how the series went: Game 1: Game 1 of the TDM1 finals is here and as could be expected…
With the Regular Season in Top Divison Men over and done with, we a TIB have selected our award winners. TDM1 Player of the Year: Mathieu Coucke TDM1 Youngster of the Year: Matteo Verstraete TDM1 First Team: PG: Sacha De Vreught (Woluwe): 13.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 8.0 apg, 1.9 spg, 0.0 bpg (TIB Rating: 25.
After the regular season in TDM1 6 teams had already secured their spot in the playoffs as Waregem, Guco Lier, Falco Gent, LDP Donza, Mailleux Comblain and SKT Ieper finished in the top 6. The remaining 2 playoff spots were decided by a single Play-in game where Neufchâteau faced Lommel and Avanti B
In a full Coretec Dome Filou Oostende did what was expected of them against the underdog Leuven Bears and got the 67-58 victory for their 21st Belgian Cup Trophy in its history. Oostende got off to a furious start, immediately pulling away to a 15-1 lead. Even though Leuven did manage to close the g
Self-Styled as the new up- and coming league with a focus on the development of young talent, the BNXT League has the lofty ambition of improving and securing the future of Belgian and Dutch Basketball. Now in its 4th season we at TIB figured it was about time to see exactly how this is playing…
Self-Styled as the new up- and coming league with a focus on the development of young talent, the BNXT League has the lofty ambition of improving and securing the future of Belgian and Dutch Basketball. Now in its 4th season we at TIB figured it was about time to see exactly how this is playing…
Much like each year we will now again give you guys an overview of all the Belgian Student/Athletes who are pursuing their American Dream and will be competing in the several school championships in the USA this year. NCAA: NCAA2: NCAA3: NAIA: NJCAA: High School / Prep: This rounds up my overview of
At the U16 European Championship (Division B) our U16 Belgian Lions narrowly missed out on the final spot to promote to Division A next year as they go down to Switzerland (75-80). After a convincing win in the Quarter-Finals against The Netherlands, things were looking very bright for our U16 Lions
At the U16 European Championship (B-Division) in Skopje our U16 Belgian Lions are on course to regain their spot in A-Division next summer by going undefeated in the Group Phase. After huge victories against Portugal (52-82) and Hungary (84-57) our youngsters came up against a scrappy Bosnia & Herze
After their promotion to the A-Division last summer, our U18 Belgian Lions came to this year’s European Championship with as main goal to maintain in Division A. After a strong group phase in which they defeated Croatia and Turkey – before losing to a very strong Germany – they moved to the Group of
“We got ourselves in this mess. We’ll have to get ourselves out of it.” That was the quote of the day after their complete off-game against Germany to start their Olympic tournament. We’re seven days later now and the Cats have done exactly that. In their second game against the USA our Cats had alr
It was a rough game for our U18 Belgian Lions as they faced Greece for a possible place in the Quarter-Finals of the U18 European Championship (Div. A). For 34 minutes Greece seemed to be in total control as the Belgian offense struggled, shooting a very low percentage from behind the arc, while our
At the U18 European Championship our U18 Lions were able to survive a rough second half to get away with the 73-77 victory against Turkey. Belgium got off to a hot start and quickly ran out to a 14-21 lead to finish out the opening quarter. Our youngsters remained in control in the second quarter…
