{"id":485860,"date":"2026-02-27T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485860"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:26:08","slug":"fridriksson-at-the-buzzer-iceland-erase-21-and-stun-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fridriksson-at-the-buzzer-iceland-erase-21-and-stun-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridriksson at the buzzer: Iceland erase 21 and stun Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1520\" data-end=\"1892\">Iceland beat Lithuania 86-85 at Laugardalsholl on <strong data-start=\"1617\" data-end=\"1640\">Elvar Fridriksson\u2019s<\/strong> buzzer-beater, with the guard pouring in <strong data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1695\">34 points<\/strong> (4 rebounds, 6 assists, 6\/7 from three); Lithuania were led by <strong data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"1780\">Marek Blazevic 19<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1785\" data-end=\"1807\">Azuolas Tubelis 16<\/strong>. The only other Iceland player in double figures was <strong data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"1881\">Tryggvi Hlinason<\/strong> with 14.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1894\" data-end=\"2051\">Lithuania looked in full control after a 24-11 third quarter, stretching the lead to <strong data-start=\"1979\" data-end=\"1986\">+21<\/strong> with 7:12 remaining. It appeared to be a comfortable road win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2053\" data-end=\"2265\">Instead, Iceland ripped off a <strong data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2091\">30-8<\/strong> run to turn the game around and then finished it at the horn through Fridriksson. The win lifts Iceland to 2-1, tying Italy at the top while holding the head-to-head edge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\ud83d\udea8 NO PUEDE SER&#8230; \u00a1\u00a1INCRE\u00cdBLE!!<\/p>\n<p>Islandia vence a Lituania sobre la bocina y perd\u00eda por 21 PUNTOS en el \u00faltimo cuarto \ud83d\ude31\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Qu\u00e9 tiro se ha sacado Elvar Fridriksson de la manga!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIBAWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIBAWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StepItUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StepItUp<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QBP7HSWGQx\">pic.twitter.com\/QBP7HSWGQx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gigantes del Basket (@GIGANTESbasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GIGANTESbasket\/status\/2027496825507229763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning comeback in Reykjavik flips Group D\u2019s other game on its head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":485857,"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":[253,271,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iceland","category-lithuania","category-world-cup","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/Elvar-Fridriksson.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485860","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485860"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485860"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485860"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}