{"id":22418,"date":"2025-11-14T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/eurobasket-2027-great-britain-women-beat-switzerland-in-qualification-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:55:51","slug":"eurobasket-2027-great-britain-women-beat-switzerland-in-qualification-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/eurobasket-2027-great-britain-women-beat-switzerland-in-qualification-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2027: Great Britain women beat Switzerland in qualification opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s women began their EuroBasket 2027 qualification attempt with a 85-64 victory over Switzerland in Manchester.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts trailed 22-12 after the first quarter, before scoring 32 points in the second to lead by six at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain pulled away after the break to secure a dominant victory in their opening Group D match in the first round of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holly Winterburn hit a game-high 26 points for the hosts at the National Basketball Performance Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain face Austria in Vienna on Saturday, before playing Norway in Bergen on Tuesday. The return legs will all take place in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top two teams from each of the seven groups will advance to the second round of qualifying, alongside the three highest-ranked third-placed sides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c5yp37y233jo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s women began their EuroBasket 2027 qualification attempt with a 85-64 victory over Switzerland in Manchester. The hosts trailed 22-12 after the first quarter, before scoring 32 points in the second to lead by six at half-time. Britain pulled away after the break to secure a dominant victory in their opening Group D match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22420,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions\/22420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}