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Bulgaria had a tough defeat against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the B Division of the European Championship yesterday, but that's part of why I decided to write this prediction. If Bulgarians resisted better to the objectively boring Bosnians, the margin would probably be over 30 points today... their opponents today are the Romanians, probably the worst team that ever played in the U20, at least lately. Just look at their results - they lost to Portugal by 27, to BiH by almost 60, to Lithuania by 20-ish, to Hungary by 41, to Israel by 32, to Britain by 30, and even to Norwegians whose basketball is almost nonexistent. But, the Romanians were nonexistent till last year, when they took the last place of the B Division of the EC, but they were a lot more serious then, and were losing matches with an acceptable points difference (to Britain by 2, Belgium by 10, Czech by 12, Portugal by 3). One of their worst defeats last year was against Bulgaria (54-74). Their problem is that all the main Romanian players from last year left (Ursu, Craciun...), and it shows on the results this year. Bulgaria have almost the same team as last year (Kostova, DImitrova, Hristova...), and it's clear that the quality difference between these two is much bigger now. Coach Tsankov said that nothing worked for them yesterday when they lost to BiH, and he also mentioned the referees. This is women's basketball, and the young Bulgarians obviously lost motivation after they got behind. But, the impression they left on this EC isn't bad. Israel, who were defeating Romania by 32, were defeated by 30 by the Bulgarians, the Bulgarians also defeated Norway by 20, Britain by 5, and the three defeats were in the thriller final moments (Lithuania by 3, Germany by 3, Portugal by 4). This B Division championship is played in Bulgaria, and that's where they defeated Greece three times, Greece who are among the weaker teams of the A Division. The Bulgarians were very convincing and defeated them by 30 twice.