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| 28/10/2011 |
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Indonesia rally to down Saudi Arabia for 7th place |
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Indonesia staged a third quarter fightback and then held fort to beat Saudi Arabia 52-47 in the play off for the 7th position on Friday. |
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| 26/10/2011 |
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China do the basics right, prove mighty |
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China indeed did nothing more than the ordinary, yet proved extra ordinary for Saudi Arabia in their 100-19 win in the second quarterfinal on Wednesday. |
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| 24/10/2011 |
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Vietnam caught unawares in Saudi rally |
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For the second game running, Vietnam raised the hopes of their maiden win in the competition, but once again it proved flattery to deceive as the team went down 53-63 to a rallying Saudi Arabia. |
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| 23/10/2011 |
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Philippines take Saudi Arabia in their stride |
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Coach Olsen Racela had the luxury of using a 10-man rotation in the very first quarter itself underlining their superiority as Philippines cantered through to a 100-42 win in Group F on Saturday. |
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| 22/10/2011 |
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Indonesia down Saudi Arabia after see-saw humdinger |
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Saudi Arabia and Indonesia fought a see-saw battle, where fortunes swung like the proverbial pendulum, before the latter held their composure and confidence together at the crunch moments to eke out 70-65 win in a needle Group F game on Saturday. |
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| 19/10/2011 |
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Saudi Arabia win, and win big! |
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With their Preliminary Round Group C reduced to a virtual three-team Saudi Arabia’s 85-47 win against fellow GCC team Qatar not only gave them the first win in the competition, but also might just come in handy in the race to the quarterfinals from the Second Round, to which teams will carry forward the results of their fellow qualifiers from the same group. |
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| 18/10/2011 |
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Effervescent Japan provide an enthusiastic tip-off |
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Japan scored the first four points of the game, then sprang a 9-0 run before strengthening their hold further in the second quarter and then cruised along for a 86-36 win against Saudi Arabia in Group C as the 2nd FIBA Asia U16 Championship tipped off at this picturesque beach resort town on Tuesday. |
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| 05/06/2011 |
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Ittihad finish seventh |
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Serbian import Vladislav Dragajlovic returned a mammoth double double to lead Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia to a 104-95 win against Duhok of Iraq in the 7th position play-off on Sunday. |
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| 04/06/2011 |
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Jala’a in line to better 2010 finish |
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Syrian League champions Al Jala’a slowly and steadily built their control over Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia for a 85-77 win in the 5-8 Classification game on Saturday.
Jala’a, thus remained in contention to better their last year’s 6th place finish. Jala’a will take on the winners of the all-WABA Classification game between ASU (Jordan) and Iraq’s Duhok. |
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| 03/06/2011 |
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Mahram stamp their might on Al Ittihad |
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Darren Kelly, who had a game-high 24 points, took more than six minutes to open the scoring for Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad in the quarterfinal game against twice defending champions Mahram. But by then, each of Mahram’s starters had scored at least once leading the Iranian giants to an 18-0 lead.
Mahram’s 102-65 win, thus, looked a mere formality after that. |
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| 01/06/2011 |
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Ittihad put paid to Dragons' hopes |
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Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad opened up the game early in the second quarter and then coasted along for a 98-76 win against KL Dragons to wind up their Group A engagements with a 2-2 record.
Imports – American Darren Kelly and Serb Vladislav Dragajlovic – combined to score 68 points and veteran Dil Alhujani accounted for a dozen to lead Ittihad ahead. |
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| 30/05/2011 |
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ASU ride on experience against Ittihad |
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Last year’s semifinalists Applied Science University came up with an improved performance, but relied more on their experience to ward off Al Ittihad’s challenge 79-69, for their second win in Group A on Monday. |
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| 29/05/2011 |
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First win for Ittihad as Duhok flatter to deceive |
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Iraqi champions Duhok flattered in the first half only to deceive in the second allowing their Saudi Arabian counterparts Al Ittihad to get away with a 83-75 win in Group A on Sunday. |
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| 28/05/2011 |
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Second quarter flurry takes Smart Gilas to opening win |
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Smart Gilas Pilipinas gave a lot to cheer for the motley crowd at the PhilSports Arena on Friday pulling ahead in the second quarter and then consolidating the ship for a 101-69 win against Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia in a Group A game on Saturday. |
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| 24/09/2010 |
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Al Sati tips Syria into Second Round |
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Syria’s Amer Al Sati succeeded only twice in field attempts during his half-hour stay on the court, but most crucially the second of such a success beat the buzzer and took his team to a 70-68 win against a doughty Saudi Arabia on Friday. |
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| 22/09/2010 |
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Philippines stave off Saudi challenge |
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For a team coming in as a replacement – the second choice at that – to a truant fellow Sub Zone team, Saudi Arabia did rather well to keep abreast of SEABA champions Philippines in their Group C game on Wednedsay.
But as their coach Al Ibrahim Mansour would later acknowledge “the fitter and faster Philippines” prevailed – by a 86-68 margin. |
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| 30/05/2010 |
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Overtime win gives Smart Gilas 7th-place finish |
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Smart Gilas of Philippines, who had lost the only other Overtime game in the competition thus far, were more fortunate on Sunday winning their seventh place play-off against Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal 100-95 in extended time. |
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| 29/05/2010 |
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Astana aim for their best finish |
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Astana Tigers of Kazakhstan defeated Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal 64-50 in the 5-8 classification on Saturday to keep themselves in the reckoning for their best-ever finish in FIBA Asia Champions Cup. |
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| 28/05/2010 |
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All Rayyan show takes hosts to semifinals |
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Hosts Al Rayyan called the shots right from the word, moved on relentlessly before finishing off the challenge of Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal with a 97-59 win on Friday.
Rayyan, thus broke a two-year semifinal jinx for the hosting team of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup.
The hosts of the previous two editions – Satria Muda of Indonesia in 2009 and Al Qadsia of Kuwait the year earlier – had lost out in the quarterfinals.
The previous occasion when the hosts made the semifinals was in 2007, when Saba Battery had gone on to win the FIBA Asia Champions Cup when they hosted the 18th edition at Tehran. |
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| 26/05/2010 |
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ASU head into QFs with their confidence high |
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Jordanian league champions Applied Science University played well within themselves, yet proved more than a handful for Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal in their final Group B preliminary round engagement.
Wednedsay’s 96-63 win took Fredrick Oniga’s men to the second spot in their Group leaving them with a quarterfinal clash against Kazakhstan’s Astana Tigers on Friday, after Thursday’s rest day. |
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| 24/05/2010 |
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Another clean, confident and triumphant show by Riyadi |
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It was yet another in office for Al Riyadi Beirut as the Lebanese league champions swept away to a 83-77 win against Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal in a Group B preliminary round game on Monday.
Fadi El Khatib top scored the game, for Al Riyadi with 19 points. |
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| 23/05/2010 |
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Al Jalaa find winning ways, in style |
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Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal came up with a superb 15-0 spree that ran across the third quarter break, in their Group B game against Al Jalaa of Syria but even that proved insufficient to overcome the deficit they had surrendered earlier.
As a result, Al Jalaa who had lost to Al Riyadi Beirut on the opening night staved off their Gulf sub-zone rivals’ late rally to win 93-63. |
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| 22/05/2010 |
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Al Hilal ward off Al Nasr challenge |
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Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia had the fortunes finally swing their in the closing moments of the fourth quarter and they closed up to a 77-69 win over fellow Gulf sub-zone team Al Nasr of UAE. |
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