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Belgian Student-Athletes in the USAEMBL / BNXT

The ‘US College’-route and its effect on Belgian Basketball.

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 jumping up and down as…

EMBL / BNXT

Promotion and Relegation rules back in effect!

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 division of his…

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EuroBasket 2025 – Belgian National Youth Teams (U16, U18, U20)

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 overview here of…

TIB

General Statement

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 majority of all our…

TIB

Kangoeroes Mechelen are the BNXT League Champions!

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…

TDM1

LDP Donza are the 2024-’25 TDM1 Champions!

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…

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2024-’25 TIB’s Top Division Men Awards

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: 25.5)…

TDM1

TDM1 Playoffs set to tip off !

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 Brugge faced Gembo….

EMBL / BNXT

Filou Oostende is the 2024-’25 Belgian Cup Winner!

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 gab…

BlogEMBL / BNXT

The Next in The BNXT: Impact of the youngsters (NL)

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…