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2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup

basketball game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2019
Entity authorityQ42530174 ↗
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The 2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup, for sponsorship reasons the bpost Supercup, was the 20th edition of the annual super cup game in Belgian basketball. Oostende, winner of the 2016–17 Basketball League Belgium Division I, played against at Hubo Limburg United, runners-up of the 2016–17 Belgian Basketball Cup.

The game was played at 16 September 2017 in the Sleuyter Arena in Ostend.

Match details

Oostende won its 10th Supercup, after Mike Myers hit the game-winning buzzer beater. Vincent Kesteloot was named the Most Valuable Player, after he recorded 14 points and 5 assists.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Belgian, Basketball and Supercup is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.