Women’s Italbasket, no final at European Championships: head-on defeat to Belgium

The run of the Women’s National Team stops in the semifinals, which after four successes over Serbia, Slovenia, Lithuania and Turkey today had to surrender in the penultimate act of the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2025 to Belgium (64-66).

Capobianco’s team kept the game in the balance for 40 minutes but in the final succumbed narrowly to the “Red Cats,” reigning European champions.

The Azzurre return to the court on Sunday to face France in the final that is worth the Bronze medal (4:30 p.m. Italian time, live on Rai, Sky SportUno and DAZN). Today the transalpines were beaten by Spain in the other semifinal (64-65, Fam 21, Ayayi 19)

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The best Azzurra scorer was Lorela Cubaj with a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds, in double figures also Cecilia Zandalasini and Martina Fassina with 11.