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At least we weren’t outnumbered
Hopes of an upset were dashed early in Dublin but Emmet Ryan still found plenty of solace as Hibernia Basketball went down at the hands of Bakken Bears There are away fans in FIBA Europe Cup? Wow, didn’t see that coming. Bakken Bears had around 30 boisterous fans in Dublin for a game that carried […]
Demons run ends as Templeogue open Irish league with big win
It was a clash of the titans on opening night in Oblate Hall as UCC Demons fell to Templeogue while UL Eagles were the only club from outside of Dublin to record a win on the opening day of the Irish season After around 3 years of not playing any hoops at all, Paul Cummins […]
National League Preview: Ireland
BallinEurope is going to cast its eyes over a few of Europe’s top and not so top national league over the next week or so as we get back into the regular grind of European basketball. First up, the league in the same nation as BiE Towers, Ireland Last year was a true first for […]
Hibernia Basketball names 26 man initial squad for FIBA Europe Cup
The initial 26 man training roster for Hibernia Basketball has been named featuring one of the oldest active players on the continent and some massive caveats, writes Emmet Ryan As expected, player-coach Colin O’Reilly is part of the panel along with another 5 of his team-mates at UCC Demons. The squad features 9 of the […]
Schedule breaks hard for Hibernia in FIBA Europe Cup
In one respect, it’s exactly what Hibernia wanted but it’s still going to be an awful road through FIBA Europe Cup according to Emmet Ryan The order makes a heap of sense if you are Basketball Ireland. The target from this campaign is to not go 0-6. A win, any win, is a big win […]
Ranking Hibernia Basketball’s potential intro tunes
With Hibernia Basketball signalling Ireland’s return to European club basketball, BiE editor Emmet Ryan has ranked the top five songs he thinks the team should use when they take the floor There’s a problem in Irish sport that I like to call Dropkick Murphys syndrome. It’s where pretty much every sporting event in Ireland insists […]
Ireland to re-enter European club basketball in autumn 2015
In a stunning announcement, Basketball Ireland has announced it will re-enter European club competition this autumn in FIBA’s new European club competition. Fresh off a third place finish for its Men’s Premier Select side at the Sino-European championships, Basketball Ireland has announced that a combined team will represent Irish clubs in European competitions in the […]
VIDEO: Ireland’s Orla O’Reilly on an historic performance at the 3×3
Ireland’s 3×3 women’s basketball team made history at the 2015 European Games in Baku by reaching the quarter finals before finally falling to Russia. Orla O’Reilly, the lone pro on the team, gave her thoughts after the game about what the run meant for her and her team mates.
AUDIO: Ireland captain Suzanne Maguire on reaching 3×3 quarter finals
Listen to Ireland captain Suzanne Maguire react to reaching the quarter finals of the women’s 3×3 competition at the 2015 European games in Baku.
LIVE: Watch Ireland vs Russia in 3×3 quarter finals
Normally, BiE is all about being fair and balanced. Normally, Ireland isn’t playing a knockout game. Today is not a normal day because Ireland play the Czech Repbulic at 16.30 CET and BiE is in no mood to be fair and balanced. So instead, today, we are waving our tricolour and coming up with as […]
Lesser spotted dunks: Preston Ross steals and jams
UCD Marian finished their season with an overtime victory 85-76 over Dublin Inter. An end of season game between two mid-table clubs doesn’t usually get our attention. Preston Ross commanded it with a big jam at the 24 second mark of the video below.
Lesser spotted dunks: Preston Ross makes the big jam against DCU Saints
We heard about this dunk on Twitter but it took a few days for it to surface online, check out Preston Ross nailing the huge one-handed jam for UCD Marian in their 89-80 win over DCU Saints in the Irish league. Ross is averaging 20.7 points per game 6.7 rebounds per game in his first […]