LAUSANNE (Switzerland) – There are fairytales and then there is Switzerland’s run at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025. The alpine nation pulled off a magical upset of France and now find themselves in the Quarter-Finals – among the top eight teams in the world.
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In case you forgot, the Swiss have never played in a FIBA U19 World Cup – heck, the men’s program has never played a FIBA Youth EuroBasket game in Division A.
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Still, hosts Switzerland shocked France and the world with an 86-79 overtime comeback win – the No. 60 team in the FIBA World Rankings Boys taking down the No. 3 nation in global basketball. Switzerland won the game with an 18-0 run spanning the fourth quarter and overtime. Dayan Nessah scored 22 points with 15 rebounds and Oliver Sassella had 25 points for the Swiss.
France – a nation that finished third, second and second in the last three FIBA U19 World Cups – were leading 66-54 with 5:34 minutes to go. But Switzerland scored the final 12 points of regulation – eight of them by Sassella – to force overtime. And France failed to score for almost 3 minutes in the extra session and the deficit was 72-66.
Switzerland will next face New Zealand in Friday’s Quarter-Finals.
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