Overview

• Luka Dončić recorded 26 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in an 86-69 defeat of Belgium in Katowice, one of only a few EuroBasket triple-doubles since 1995, and he crossed 400 career EuroBasket points at age 26.
• Slovenia improved to 1-2 in Group D and now faces Iceland on Tuesday and Israel on Thursday as it seeks to secure a place in the Round of 16.
• A day earlier Slovenia fell 103-95 to France despite Dončić’s 39 points, with France’s bench outscoring Slovenia’s 78-26 and Sylvain Francisco delivering 32 off the bench.
• Francisco later apologized for a final-seconds layup after accepting a handshake from Dončić, explaining he was mindful of EuroBasket’s point-differential tiebreaker.
• Elsewhere, Serbia clinched a knockout berth at 3-0 behind Nikola Jokić’s 39 against Latvia, and Germany also qualified after beating Lithuania.