EuroCup

Lokomotiv Kuban and Spartak locked in spots in the EuroCup Quarterfinals with wins on Wednesday. Both clubs are in Group K, Kuban’s win keeps them as the only undefeated team in the Last 16 with a 4-0 mark, while Spartak has their one loss to Kuban as a blemish on their 3-1 record. A number…

Lokomotive Kuban stands alone after EuroCup Week 3 as the only undefeated club in Last 16 play. Valencia Baskets was handed their first loss by winless Bilbao, and Budivelnik was handed a huge loss at home by Buducnost VOLI. It’s still too early to start handing out invitations to the Quarterfinals, but Week 4 could…

There are a lot of interesting side notes that come out of Week 2 of the EuroCup Last 16, such as two undefeated teams in the regular season are winless in two games, Uxue Bilbao Basket and Triumph Lyubertsy; three groups have one team at 2-0, two at 1-1, and one at 0-2, while that last…

When the 2012-13 EuroCup regular season ended, there were three undefeated clubs that had won their groups: Uxue Bilbao Basket, BC Triumph Lyubertsy, and Spartak St. Petersburg. If any of them had aspirations of running the table in both the regular season and the Last 16, those thoughts were dashed this week as all three clubs were beaten and two of them were beaten badly.