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Great Britain ended their 12-year wait for a EuroBasket victory with a shock 89-83 win over Montenegro in Finland.<\/b><\/p>\n
In their final Group B match, Myles Hesson and Akwasi Yeboah led scoring for Britain with 25 and 23 points respectively.<\/p>\n
GB sit 48th in Fiba’s world rankings, 32 places below Montenegro.<\/p>\n
However, both teams will exit EuroBasket at the group stage because of fourth-placed Sweden’s superior point difference, with the top four from each group advancing to the last 16.<\/p>\n
In Britain’s most recent EuroBasket appearances, in 2022 and 2017, they lost all five group matches each time, with their last EuroBasket win having come against Germany in 2013.<\/p>\n
The British squad is one of six from the 24 EuroBasket nations – and the only one in their group – not to contain at least one active NBA player.<\/p>\n
Instead, Britain’s team is made up of players who play domestically across the Super League, as well as in Hungary, Turkey, Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n
Montenegro were captained by Chicago Bulls centre Nikola Vucevic, who scored 31 points, as well as registering 11 rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n
Vucevic, 34, called time on his 14-year international career following the match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n