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GB U20 Women Upset Latvia, Secure 2nd Round Place

July 8, 2011

The Great Britain Under-20 women produced a huge upset at the European Championships today as they defeated last year’s bronze medalists Latvia 71-64. The win gave them their first victory of this year’s campaign, and guarantees them a place in the second round. Despite going down after the first quarter, a huge 26-4 run across [...]

GB U20 Women Suffer Heartbreaker to Slovakia

July 7, 2011

The Great Britain Under-20 Women suffered a heartbreaking loss in their European Championship opener on Thursday as they lost 39-38 on a last second shot from Slovakia. Slovakia’s Marta Palenikova made a lay-up with two seconds left to give Slovakia redemption for the loss in last year’s Division B final. It capped a thrilling finish [...]

GB Women Finish Eurobasket With Loss to Russia

June 28, 2011

GB women finished their Eurobasket campaign with another tough loss, going down to Russia 62-59 on Monday. Against a nation who are ranked second in the world and had started the tournament as one of the favourites, Britain led by as many as 15 points in the first half and held a ten point lead [...]

GB Women Lose to Turkey, Will Not Advance

June 26, 2011

Great Britain will not advance past the second round of the 2011 Eurobasket Women after a 64-57 defeat against Turkey combined with a Russian victory over Czech Republic, meant their hopes of a quarter final appearance were dashed on Saturday. Tom Maher’s team trailed by 11 points midway through the final quarter, but fought back [...]

GB Women Lose Heartbreaker to Lithuania

June 24, 2011

GB women came agonisingly close to recording the biggest victory in their history before losing 64-63 against Lithuania in the opening game of the second phase of the EuroBasket finals in Poland on Thursday. Tom Maher’s team led by five points going into the final three and half minutes, but failed to score again as [...]

GB Women Advance to Second Round of Eurobasket

June 20, 2011

The GB Women advanced to the second round of their first ever Eurobasket finals with a 74-51 victory over Israel today, getting their first win of the tournament in style in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The British dominated the game after a tight opening five minutes as they recorded the nation’s first ever victory at senior European finals [...]

GB Women Go Down to Czech Republic

June 19, 2011

By Joe Pinchin | @joepinchin A strong effort from the GB Women wasn’t enough to prevent their second EuroBasket defeat of the weekend as they went down 60-45 against world number two, the Czech Republic tonight. The loss means they go into Monday’s game with Israel knowing it is a case of win or go [...]

GB Women Suffer Defeat in Opener Against Belarus

June 18, 2011

By Joe Pinchin | @joepinchin Great Britain opened their first ever EuroBasket finals campaign with a 55-40 loss today after taking on world number four Belarus, in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Great Britain were led by Kim Butler’s 8 points and 6 rebounds whilst Azania Stewart added 7 and Chantelle Handy 6 points. Katsiaryna Snytsina and Anastasiya [...]

GB Women Ready for Eurobasket Challenge

June 17, 2011

The GB Women begin their first 2011 Eurobasket finals campaign on Saturday, a task that head coach Tom Maher feels the team, despite perhaps lacking the experience of their competition, is prepared for. “We’re really looking forward to it. We have to get down to playing our style of basketball, we’re not in it for the [...]

Maher Names Final GB Women’s Roster

June 14, 2011

Head Coach Tom Maher has named the final GB Senior Women’s 12 player roster that will compete in Eurobasket Women 2011, tipping off this Saturday 18 June in Poland. The squad is led by Jo Leedham, who has been battling injury for 6 months but returned to action last week for GB, missing all but [...]

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