Slovenia reacted and got the WC ticket

2013-09-19T18:39:48+00:00 2013-09-20T17:48:26+00:00.

Aris Barkas

19/Sep/13 18:39

Eurohoops.net

Just hours after their defeat by France, Eurobasket host Slovenia beat Serbia and secured a spot in next season’s FIBA World Cup. The Serbs will have one more chance to also qualify in their last game of the tournament

By Niki Bakouli/ bakouli@eurohoops.net

The first quarter ended with Slovenia getting a comfortable 18 points lead over Serbia (28-10) and that was the story of the classification game which send the Eurobasket hosts to compete for the fifth place of the final standings and also gave them the ticket to FIBA World Cup.

Slovenia got the 92-74 win and reacted admirably after losing to France in their quarterfinals clash. Zoran Dragic scored 23 points and had 9 rebounds for the winners, while Nenad Krstic had 16 points for Serbia. The players of coach Dusan Ivkovic will have one last chance to get their World Cup ticket in the classification game for the seventh spot in the final standings.

“The game was very tough for us, we only had 14 hours to prepare but we played together a great game, we played like we must play on defence, very well on offence too and fortunately we won the game,” said Zoran Dragic.

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