Brussels has announced the arrival of 19 year old Montenegrin stretch-4 Pavle Djurisic for the upcoming season. Djurisic is a 2m06 tall Forward with solid ball-handling skills and a good range on his outside shooting. This past summer he shined at the U20 European Championship for Montenegro and ended up with averages of 9.9 ppg…
There have already been several changes announced for the Top Division Men 1 teams. Here’s a little overview: Oxaco Boechout: after a tough season Oxaco sees a couple of their players leaving the club as Maarten Van Gelder is retiring and will coach Oxaco’s U21 team and their 2nd team. Yannick Schoepen will join the…
The Spanish Liga Endesa has announced that they will finish out the 2019-’20 season with a Playoffs consisting of the Top 12 of the regular season standings as they were at the time of the coronavirus outbreak. These playoffs will be played in one location as soon as it is allowed by the Spanish government….
After they have announced the arrival of several new youngsters Liège Basket has now also announced the extention of several of their current players: Thomas Hubert, Ludovic Lambermont, James Potier, Brieuc Lemaire, François Lhoest, Justin Kohajda & Ioann Iarochevitch are all remaining next season, giving them a solid all-Belgian foundation on which to build.
The Antwerp Giants have just announced that combo guard Stephaun Branch has extended his contract with the club for one more season. Branch joined the Giants during the course of the past season in December 2019 to bolster the Giants’ backcourt who were at that time missing Sanders due to an injury. With his strong…
While we were busy preparing our website there have already been several transfers as the EMBL teams are preparing for next season. Here’s a little overview: Most active so far on the transfer market has been Liège Basket as they have signed several youngsters (who will be competing for both their first team in EMBL…
The left-handed 6’3″ Point Guard made the move to the USA back in 2018 when he left United Basket Woluwe (playing in TDM2) to join Westminster Academy in Florida. At Westminster Academy Swenson led his team to their third straight state title, getting 46 wins over the course of his 2 seasons. In his senior…
After his very successful freshman season at Glenville State College in the NCAA 2nd Division, Belgian youngster with Dominican roots Steven Verplancken made himself available for transfer this off-season and quickly racked up the offers from 1st Division universities all over the country. After careful consideration he has now elected to commit to Southern Illinois…
Hans Vanwijn from the Antwerp Giants has been elected as the 2019-’20 EMBL Belgian Player of the Year. In 14 games Vanwijn recorded averages of 12.8 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.9 apg, 0.5 spg & 0.4 bpg. Seppe D’espallier from the Leuven Bears has been elected as the 2019-’20 EMBL Belgian Youngster of the Year. The…
It’s been pretty quiet on here lately, right? Well, first of all there are no games being played anywhere at the moment to report about… so that’s definitely one reason. But the main reason for our quietness is that we’ve (finally) resumed work on a brand new TIB website in the hopes of putting the…
