Turkey, Germany to meet for EuroBasket title

RIGA, Latvia -- Turkey is headed to the EuroBasket last for the archetypal clip successful 24 years, acceptable to look World Cup champion Germany for the golden medal.

The rubric crippled is Sunday successful Riga. Turkey bushed Greece 94-68 connected Friday successful the 2nd semifinal, preceded by Germany's 98-86 triumph implicit Finland.

Greece and Finland play Sunday for bronze.

Regardless of outcome, it volition beryllium conscionable the 2nd EuroBasket medal for Turkey, which won metallic erstwhile it hosted the tourney successful 2001. Germany volition medal for the 4th clip aft winning golden successful 1993, metallic successful 2005 and bronze successful the astir caller EuroBasket earlier present successful 2022.

Germany and Turkey played a affable earlier this EuroBasket started astatine the DBB Supercup. Germany won that crippled 73-71 connected Aug. 15.

And astatine EuroBasket, neither squad has lost, with some bringing 8-0 records into Sunday's matchup. The victor volition beryllium conscionable the 2nd undefeated EuroBasket champion successful the past 9 instances of the tournament, joining Slovenia successful 2017.

Turkey blew its crippled unfastened with a 12-0 tally that took lone 2:19 of the 2nd quarter, going up 45-24 erstwhile that spurt ended. It was 49-31 astatine the half, with the superior quality being turnovers. Greece had 12 successful the archetypal 20 minutes that turned into 17 Turkey points; Turkey had lone 2 giveaways successful the archetypal half, which became 2 Greece points.

Ercan Osmani scored 28 points and Cedi Osman added 17 to assistance Turkey rotation into the rubric game. Alperen Sengun finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists, portion Shane Larkin finished with 14 points and 5 assists for Turkey.

Kostas Sloukas led Greece with 15 points. Giannis Antetokounmpo was held to 12 points and 12 rebounds successful 30 minutes.

Dennis Schroder scored 26 points and added 12 assists to assistance Germany bushed Finland.

Schröder made 4 3-pointers and went a cleanable 10-of-10 from the escaped propulsion line. Franz Wagner added 22 points, including back-to-back 3-pointers to assistance Germany physique its biggest pb astatine 49-30 successful the 2nd quarter.

Olivier Nkamhoua led Finland with 22 points. Lauri Markkanen had 16 points connected 6-of-17 shooting for Finland, which was wrong six precocious successful the 3rd 4th but watched Germany propulsion away.