{"id":486255,"date":"2026-03-02T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486255"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:11:45","slug":"perfect-window-georgia-punch-second-round-ticket-as-shengelia-leads-in-tbilisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/perfect-window-georgia-punch-second-round-ticket-as-shengelia-leads-in-tbilisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect window: Georgia punch Second Round ticket as Shengelia leads in Tbilisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1783\" data-end=\"2121\">Georgia booked their place in the Second Round with a perfect 2-0 back-to-back against Denmark: an <strong data-start=\"1929\" data-end=\"1938\">89-71<\/strong> road win followed by an <strong data-start=\"1963\" data-end=\"1972\">89-60<\/strong> victory in Tbilisi. The sweep means Denmark can no longer catch Georgia in the standings, sending <strong data-start=\"2071\" data-end=\"2094\">Aleksandar Dzikic\u2019s<\/strong> team through once again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2123\" data-end=\"2434\">In the home win, <strong data-start=\"2140\" data-end=\"2161\">Tornike Shengelia<\/strong> delivered <strong data-start=\"2172\" data-end=\"2201\">27 points and 11 rebounds<\/strong> (plus 5 steals), while <strong data-start=\"2225\" data-end=\"2243\">Marcquise Reed<\/strong> led the scoring with <strong data-start=\"2265\" data-end=\"2271\">29<\/strong> on 13-of-19 shooting, adding 7 rebounds and 3 assists. <strong data-start=\"2327\" data-end=\"2353\">Aleksandre Merkviladze<\/strong> chipped in 12 points and 8 rebounds as Georgia controlled the game throughout.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2436\" data-end=\"2731\">The result also pushed Spain through regardless of Monday\u2019s outcome, since Denmark can finish only 2-4 at best and Spain already had three wins entering their final game of the window. Georgia\u2019s consistency in this qualification format continues after culminating in a World Cup berth in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two wins over Denmark seal the deal, sending Georgia through for a third straight time in this format<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486254,"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":[227,241,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denmark","category-georgia","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Toko-Shengelia.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486255","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=486255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486255"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486255"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486255"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}