Lewis' team chalked up their fourth straight victory on Wednesday evening when they comfortably defeated Slovak Republic 82-66, but Austria's 82-78 loss against Poland meant there was a three-way tie at the top of Group F that left GB in third place on points differential.

Britain will now play for 5th -8th places despite only losing one game.

Lewis was pleased with how his team played in their win against the Slovaks.

"It was a scrappy game against a scrappy team, but we overcame our tiredness and we again played with real toughness."

"I'm incredibly disappointed not to be in the semi-finals as we consistently showed we deserved to be there, the guys played their hearts out.

"It's is unfortunate that there's a team with two [Austria] losses in the semi-finals, and we'll be sitting watching it with five wins from six games. I know why the competition has the system it does, but one bad day has cost us dearly."