France looks to continue their recent run of success in international basketball with a FIBA World Cup semifinal matchup against Serbia on Friday. A win would put the French team in the final against the United States just one year after winning Eurobasket 2013 for the first time in the nation's history.
Match: France vs Serbia
Tournament: FIBA World Basketball Championship 2014
Game : Basketball
Date: 12 September, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 22:00 GMT
Broadcasting tv channel list: ESPN 3, ABC 2
Led by Boris Diaw and Thomas Heurtel, France knocked Spain -- arguably the favorite behind Team USA -- out of a major tournament for the second straight year Wednesday with a 65-52 win in the quarterfinals. A year ago in the semifinals of Eurobasket, France upset Spain, 75-72, in overtime.
While Serbia isn't having a historically special level of success in international basketball like France, the team's blowout win over Brazil in the semifinals was impressive. Holding a talented team to 24 second-half points is nothing to brush off.
That means we should be in store for a pretty interesting game Friday as Diaw, Heurtel, Nicolas Batum and others look to keep France on the rise. These two teams met in the group stage and France took the game by the narrowest of margins, 74-73.