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Welcome back: Dukes return to Austrian finals after 22 years, face Swans Gmuden
The heartily-named Xion Dukes Klosterneuburg will be playing to end its 22-year title drought in the Austrian domestic league championship series. David Hein reports on the team’s success against Bulls Kapfenburg in the semis as well as the Dukes’ upcoming opponents Allianz Swans Gmuden. Xion Dukes Klosterneuburg reached the finals of the Austrian Admiral Basketball […]
Chalk talk in Austria: Top four seeds advance to playoff semis
With one eye on German basketball and another on European hoops in general, BallinEurope supposes David Hein is keeping his third eye viewing the happening in Austria’s Admiral Basketball Bundesliga. Today, the heinnews.com guy updates us on the playoffs over there which, despite some shocks in the tournament’s early going, has settled down a bit… […]
Oberwart Gunners capped: Austria to have fifth new champion in five years
With the Beko BBL in the homestretch of the regular season and the Austrian playoffs underway, BallinEurope’s man in Germany, David Hein, finds himself overdosing on basketball these days. Hein rounds up the latest events in the ÖBL tournament below, including the bouncing of yet another defending champion from contention… There will be another new […]
Upsets galore as underdogs steal home court advantage in Austrian playoffs
Wow, things in the Austrian playoffs started with a lotta oddity. David Hein fills us in on a troika of upsets in Bundesliga play… The first round of the Austrian Admiral Basketball Bundesliga playoffs tipped off in thrilling fashion with the lowest three seeds UBC Carefuel Güssing, BSC Raiffeisen Fürstenfeld Panthers and BC Vienna all […]
Swans Gmunden top seed for Austrian playoffs, All-Star participants announced
In Austria today will be held what is certainly Europe’s latest all-star festivities; indeed, the Bundesliga playoffs begin on Sunday. BallinEurope contributing writer David Hein updates us on the playoff picture and well as a rundown on all-star event participants. The 2011 finalists Allianz Swans Gmunden have secured home-court advantage over the course of the […]
Swans Gmunden double up on free-falling Xion Dukes, Austria Bundesliga still tight
Probably the tightest race in European basketball as domestic leagues head into the stretch in approaching tournament time is that of the Austrian Bundesliga. Checking in with an update on recent happenings there is David Hein… With four game days left in the season, nothing is decided in the Austrian Admiral Basketball Bundesliga as three […]
Game of the month, season, century: Bulls Kapfenberg top Raiffeisen Wels in four OTs
From the In Case You Missed It Department, David Hein reports to BallinEurope on recent events in the Austrian Bundesliga and most importantly on a ridiculous quadruple-overtime game that went down in late February amidst an incredibly tight race for the playoffs there. Publicly accessible highlights of this “Thriller für die Ewigkeit”, ECE Bulls Kapfenberg’s […]
List of 2010-11 European Champions: Return from Barcelona edition
BallinEurope apologizes for the recent two-day drought of content in an attempt to catch up on “the day job” since returning from the Euroleague Final Four tournament. To (hopefully) make up for this dearth a bit, and in honor of Panathinaikos’ stirring win in the big league, BiE today presents an updated version of its […]
List of 2010-11 European Basketball Champions
With most leagues drawing to a close and playoffs beginning – not to mention champions already crowned in Albania, Cyprus, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Norway and a few regional leagues – BallinEurope returns its “List of European Basketball Champions.” At present, only the above-listed domestic leagues have shut down for the summer; BiE supplies information on […]