On Friday, FIBA conducted its draw for EuroBasket Women 2017 in the Czech Republic.
Emma Meesseman and Belgium are probably pretty happy right now with their draw in Group D, which is below:
First, let’s ignore the fact that Belgium is unranked. They already won their qualifier group to get to this point. Therefore this is a rather favorable group for them, especially if they can manage to defeat Russia in at least one game in the group stage while not suffering setback against the Latvians or Montenegrins.
Now let’s go through the other groups.