{"id":458892,"date":"2025-09-07T16:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458892"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:33:51","slug":"eurobasket-2025-round-of-16-georgia-stuns-france-to-advance-to-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurobasket-2025-round-of-16-georgia-stuns-france-to-advance-to-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025 Round of 16: Georgia Stuns France to Advance to Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Tip-off was at 14:15 for France vs. Georgia, the second Round of 16 clash of the day at EuroBasket 2025, with the winner set to face Finland in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia started strong behind the trio of <strong>Tornike Shengelia<\/strong>, <strong>Kamar\u00a0Baldwin<\/strong>, and <strong>Sandro Mamukelashvili<\/strong>, while France struggled from beyond the arc. Despite this, the Blues managed to close the gap with good ball movement and easy looks inside.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime, Georgia led 38-37, and after a French comeback early in the third, Dzikic\u2019s men responded with a <strong>9-0 run<\/strong> to push the score to <strong>50-44<\/strong> at the 27-minute mark.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth quarter, <strong>Burjanadze\u2019s three-pointer<\/strong> gave Georgia a 61-54 lead, hinting at another upset after <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/finland-surprises-serbia-the-upset-is-served-92-86-for-the-eurobasket-quarter-finals-ticket\/\">Finland\u2019s shocker yesterday<\/a>. France kept firing from deep but shot an abysmal <strong>3-of-24<\/strong> to start the game, relying on key buckets from <strong>Elie Okobo<\/strong> and <strong>Zaccharie Risacher<\/strong> to stay within striking distance at 63-60.<\/p>\n<p>With three minutes remaining, the score was tied at <strong>68-68<\/strong> after Okobo\u2019s bucket, but Shengelia and Baldwin stepped up late. Shengelia hit a huge three, and Baldwin calmly sank three free throws, extending the lead to <strong>74-68<\/strong>. France ran out of steam in the final minute, allowing Georgia to secure an impressive <strong>80-70 victory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia now advances to the <strong>quarterfinals<\/strong>, where they will face fellow tournament revelation <strong>Finland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Shengelia and Baldwin combined for 48 points, shooting 15\/20 from the field and 12\/15 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Mamukelashvili added a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>France ended the game with a terrible 6\/36 from three-point range, Francisco scored 14 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">French \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 movement of the ball is a sight to see.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EuroBasket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dr0UjYKGeE\">pic.twitter.com\/dr0UjYKGeE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1964670696656675209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TORNIKE WITH TWO HUGE THREES \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EuroBasket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MakeYourMark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MakeYourMark<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XPAAcMnMOw\">pic.twitter.com\/XPAAcMnMOw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1964690632481370418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shengelia and Baldwin combined for 48 points, shooting 15\/20 from the field and 12\/15 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":458890,"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":[98,36,53],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-francia","category-georgia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/baldwin-photo-fiba-georgia.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458892","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=458892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458892"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458892"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458892"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}