Dzanan Musa sends Bosnia to next round, Czech Republic also advances

By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net

Bosnia and the Czech Republic grabbed the last available tickets for the next round of the 2023 World Cup Qualifiers. The latter qualified in a rather spectacular fashion thanks to Dzanan Musa.

Musa hit the game-winning triple with a second remaining to hand Bosnia a 76 – 73 win over Bulgaria and the qualification to the next stage of the Qualifiers.

Before hitting the decisive bucket, Musa had gone 0-2 from the free-throw lin but John Roberson got the offensive rebound and sent it to the reigning ACB MVP for the kill. Bulgaria, that was minus star forward Sasha Vezenkov, needed a win of 10 points or more to advance and was looking to get that in overtime but Musa stole them such opportunity.

While Musa finished with 13 points plus six assists, Miralem Halilovic led Bosnia with 16 points and eight rebounds. Aleksandar Lazic had 14 points.

Dee Bost led Bulgaria with 24 points and five rebounds.

In Klaipeda, the Czech Republic got an 83 – 72 road win over Lithuania behind Tomas Satoransky’s 21 points and punched the ticket to the next round. Tomas Kyzlink contributed 18 points, five rebounds and five assists to the victory.

Ignas Brazdeikis (16 points) was the leading scorer for Lithuania.

The rest of Monday’s results:

North Macedonia – Ukraine 68 – 73

Serbia – Belgium 73 – 74

The Netherlands – Italy 81 – 92

Portugal – Montenegro 62 – 77

France – Hungary 81 – 40

The Second Round Groups via FIBA:

Group I

0/18 games played

All First Round results carry over to Second Round

GAMES STREAK GAME POINTS POINTS
# Team P W L % Last 5 For Agt +/- FA AA
1  Greece 4 3 1 75.0
310 287 23 77.5 71.8 7
2  Latvia* 4 3 1 75.0
300 288 12 75 72 7
3  Turkey 4 2 2 50.0
307 286 21 76.8 71.5 6
4  Belgium* 4 2 2 50.0
275 276 -1 68.8 69 6
5  Serbia* 4 1 3 25.0
302 313 -11 75.5 78.2 5
6  Great Britain 4 1 3 25.0
287 331 -44 71.8 82.8 5

 

Group J

0/18 games played

All First Round results carry over to Second Round

GAMES STREAK GAME POINTS POINTS
# Team P W L % Last 5 For Agt +/- FA AA
1  Germany 6 5 1 83.3
474 425 49 79 70.8 11
2  Finland 6 5 1 83.3
474 446 28 79 74.3 11
3  Slovenia 6 4 2 66.7
506 482 24 84.3 80.3 10
4  Israel 6 3 3 50.0
476 452 24 79.3 75.3 9
5  Sweden 6 2 4 33.3
479 494 -15 79.8 82.3 8
6  Estonia 6 2 4 33.3
415 470 -55 69.2 78.3 8

 

Group K

0/18 games played

All First Round results carry over to Second Round

GAMES STREAK GAME POINTS POINTS
# Team P W L % Last 5 For Agt +/- FA AA
1  France 6 5 1 83.3
464 343 121 77.3 57.2 11
2  Lithuania 6 5 1 83.3
462 421 41 77 70.2 11
3  Montenegro 6 4 2 66.7
464 428 36 77.3 71.3 10
4  Czech Republic 6 3 3 50.0
485 483 2 80.8 80.5 9
5  BIH 6 3 3 50.0
472 486 -14 78.7 81 9
6  Hungary 6 3 3 50.0
399 469 -70 66.5 78.2 9

Group L

0/18 games played

All First Round results carry over to Second Round

GAMES STREAK GAME POINTS POINTS
# Team P W L % Last 5 For Agt +/- FA AA
1 G1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
1  Italy* 4 3 1 75.0
367 348 19 91.8 87 7
2 G2 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
2  Iceland* 4 3 1 75.0
340 343 -3 85 85.8 7
3 G3 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Netherlands* 4 0 4 0
297 313 -16 74.2 78.2 4
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