In his second year at Iowa Lakes Men’s Basketball the Brussels native Kikwaki has clearly made quite a lot of progress as he saw his numbers rise from 3.8 ppg & 3.3 rpg in 11.8 mpg last year to 9.6 ppg & 5.1 rpg in 20.0 mpg this year. Although Kikwaki continued to come off the bench…
After 13 seasons of hard work with Bavi Vilvoorde youngster Sam Hofman made the move abroad this past summer where he has now concluded his first season in the NCAA with the Detroit Mercy Titans. As the first Belgian player to be recruited into the program (and obviously being a freshman) Hofman’s minutes have been limited throughout…
The season has most likely already ended for one of the biggest Belgian prospects around as Haris Bratanovic has terminated his contract with Barcelona, making him a Free-Agent. Bratanovic had been unhappy with the limited playing time he was receiving this season and felt like staying with the club would slow down his development as…
In her third (junior) year at Colorado State Women’s Basketball youngster Lore Devos has just wrapped up her season this past Sunday with a 48-60 loss at Air Force in the Mountain West Championship tournament. The loss marked the end of a pretty tough season for Devos who missed practically half of the competition due…
This summer Julie Allemand will be leaving Lyon (France) to sign up with the Indiana Fever (WNBA) for her first experience in the USA. She immediately signed a multi-year contract although the actual duration hasn’t been specified. With the WNBA taking a 1-month break for the Olympics Allemand and Emma Meesseman will be available to…
The 2019-’20 season ended in the Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC) Semi-Finals for youngster Nicolas Dierynck as his Central Maine Mustangs took the loss against NHTI. Despite not going all the way to the finals it has definitely been a very nice season for the Mustangs and for Dierynck in particular who was selected to…
A day after his birthday Quentin Serron and SIG Strasbourg have announced that they are parting ways. With the addition of Gerry Blakes and Devonte Upson Strasbourg has acquired 2 new foreign players these past couple of days, putting them over the limit of 6 foreigners allowed. And so the club had to cut one…
The opening window of the EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers has given us a surprising look into the strength of our Belgian Lions. Despite practically missing their starting line-up with Sam Van Rossom (injury/Euroleague), Ismael Bako (Euroleague), Jean Salumu (injury), Manu Lecomte (injury) and Hans Vanwijn (injury) – as well as youngster Vrenz Bleijenbergh (injury) – for…
The Belgian Lions remain perfect in this opening window of the EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers as they defeated Denmark with the 72-88 final score. Our Lions were again very dominant this game throughout the opening three quarters, thanks to their lights-out shooting from behind the arc with Tabu in particular putting on a show with his…
After the amazing successes of our Belgian Cats it was now up to our Belgian Lions to put Belgian Basketball on the map. And in this first game of the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers they did just that by defeating number 8 in the world Lithuania with the convincing 86-65 final score. Although we can’t…
