{"id":458454,"date":"2025-09-04T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458454"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:48:27","slug":"italy-cruises-past-cyprus-89-54-to-keep-top-spot-hopes-alive-in-group-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/italy-cruises-past-cyprus-89-54-to-keep-top-spot-hopes-alive-in-group-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Cruises Past Cyprus 89-54 to Keep Top Spot Hopes Alive in Group C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Italy<\/strong> kept its chances of finishing <strong>first in Group C<\/strong> alive with a convincing <strong>89-54<\/strong> win over <strong>host nation Cyprus<\/strong> in <strong>Limassol<\/strong>, securing their <strong>fourth straight victory<\/strong> at EuroBasket 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"311\">Azzurri<\/strong> took the court <strong data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"353\">wearing black ribbons<\/strong> in honor of <strong data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"384\">Giorgio Armani.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head coach <strong>Gianmarco Pozzecco<\/strong> rotated his <strong>11 available players<\/strong> (with <strong>Saliou Niang<\/strong> sidelined) and saw strong contributions across the board:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matteo Spagnolo:<\/strong> 13 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists<\/li>\n<li><strong>Momo Diouf:<\/strong> 12 points, 10 rebounds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danilo Gallinari:<\/strong> 12 points, 5 rebounds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simone Fontecchio:<\/strong> 13 points<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabriele Procida:<\/strong> 8 points in 20 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For <strong>Cyprus<\/strong>, <strong>Tigkas<\/strong> led the way with 15 points, while <strong>Willis Jr.<\/strong> added 10.<\/p>\n<p>The final standings in <strong>Groups C and D<\/strong> are still to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy ends the group-stage with four straight wins <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":458456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,131],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-italbasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/italy-eurobasket-photo-fiba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458454"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458454"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458454"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}