{"id":458871,"date":"2025-09-07T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458871"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:18:09","slug":"poland-tops-bosnia-80-72-to-advance-to-eurobasket-2025-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/poland-tops-bosnia-80-72-to-advance-to-eurobasket-2025-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Tops Bosnia 80-72 to Advance to EuroBasket 2025 Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poland punched their ticket to the <strong>EuroBasket 2025 quarterfinals<\/strong> with an <strong>80-72 win<\/strong> over Bosnia and Herzegovina in Riga, securing back-to-back appearances among the competition\u2019s top eight teams.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia started strong, taking a <strong>23-14 lead<\/strong> after the first quarter behind an efficient <strong>4-of-5 shooting from three<\/strong>, with <strong>Jusuf Nurkic<\/strong> scoring 7 early points. Poland struggled initially but closed the gap before halftime, trailing <strong>44-40<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Bosnia seemed in control until a <strong>10-1 Polish run<\/strong> swung the momentum. <strong>Jordan Loyd<\/strong> and <strong>Mateusz Ponitka<\/strong> took over in the final period, capitalizing on Bosnia\u2019s struggles after <strong>John Roberson<\/strong> exited with an injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loyd<\/strong> led Poland with <strong>28 points<\/strong> (8\/17 FG, 9\/9 FT), while <strong>Ponitka<\/strong> added a strong <strong>19 points, 11 rebounds, 3 steals, and 2 blocks<\/strong>. <strong>Sokolowski<\/strong> chipped in 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>For Bosnia, <strong>Nurkic<\/strong> posted <strong>20 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks<\/strong>, while <strong>Roberson<\/strong> added <strong>19 points on 7\/10 shooting<\/strong> before leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p>Poland will face <strong>Turkey<\/strong> in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poland \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 vs Bosnia and Herzegovina \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde6 | 1XBET Highlights | FIBA EuroBasket 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3id_gWUHErs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland will face Turkey in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":458869,"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":[46,98,67],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bosnia","category-eurobasket","category-polonia","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/jordan-loyd-photo-FIBA.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458871","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=458871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458871"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458871"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458871"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}