Lithuania caught fire from three-point range to win a Group E thriller against Turkey 67-61 and qualify for the quarter-finals of the EuroBasket Women.

Rima Valentiene, having missed her only shot from behind the arc through three quarters, connected on all four of her attempts in the final 10 minutes and Iveta Marcauskaite also made both of her long-range shots.

Turkey is the team that everyone wants to watch and nobody wants to face. When coach Cem Akdağ was first given the job way back in 2001, he had a vision which many deemed impossible. Watching the Czech Republic and Lithuania perform so well with an up-tempo style, Akdağ saw that the only way Turkey could compete was to play at a similarly frenetic pace.