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Lointek Gernika Bizkaia has faced the current Women's Champion in a tough European Cup match.

The French team is the current champion and the main candidate to win again. The one-way match will be played on Thursday 15 January in Maloste and the return on Thursday 22 in France.

Lucas Fernández's players have been chasing on the scoreboard throughout the game and have suffered terribly to get the pass to the next round.

The Biscayans have easily won the first round of the championship, gaining 19 points of advantage for next Wednesday's return match at the Lauber Dezso Sport Hall in Hungary.

Lucas Fernández's team will play the one-way game at home in Maloste on December 11 and the return match in Pecs will be on December 18. Lointek Gernika and Universitas Pecs have faced each other twice in the regular phase.

Lucas Fernández's team has been chasing on the scoreboard for almost the entire meeting and has been close to losing advantage at times, but has finally come close enough to secure its classification.

The Biscayan team went behind on the scoreboard at the end of the first quarter, but dominated the rest of the partials to take the first step in the classification goal.

The men in black have returned to Thessaloniki, the Greek city of which they were champions ten months ago, and have won with a one-point difference (87-88) in the last quarter, after almost the entire game was behind the scoreboard.

The match will begin at 4.30 p.m. and will be broadcast live through eitb.eus. and ETB4. If the Basque team succeeds in winning or losing by less than 22 points, it will be ranked first in its group in the second phase of the tournament.

Jaume Ponsarnau's team has won the last eight games, including the FIBA Europa Cup and the Endesa League.

Jaume Ponsarnau's team has won the last eight games, including the FIBA Europa Cup and the Endesa League.

The bilbaine team has overcome a new continental commitment to its fans to maintain a privileged position in the FIBA Europa Cup.

In the second phase of the tournament, the Basque team has played two games, and has won both, winning on the Slovak team's court.

The team led by Jaume Ponsarnau has suffered in several stages of the match, but has almost always been ahead of the scoreboard with a major victory.

This first match of the second phase, which will be broadcast live by EITB, will begin at 6:30 p.m. PAOK Thessaloniki and Prievidza will be the teams that will make up the Basque group.

The men in black face Sporting Portugal in the second round of the FIBA Europa Cup on December 10 at home.

Adam Silver, the NBA's envoy, advanced this Wednesday that the 2026 All Star tournament brings changes, as the US team will face the other teams in the world.