Recaps
Eurocup Round 6, Day 1
Round 6 of this season´s Eurocup is underway after five games were held on Tuesday evening as the competition starts to heat up in the second half of the Regular Season. It was a night of largely comfortable victories as the groups begin to take shape during the 2013/2014 season. In Group B KK Cedevita…
Read MoreAdriatic League: Red Star downs Partizan
Last night the top two teams in the Adriatic League clashed and now a new leader sits atop the standings. Serbian clubs met in battle, Crvena Zvezda Telekom Beograd took home a thrilling overtime victory over BC Partizan NiS, 86:83. Both teams now have an identical 6-2 record, but because Red Star just won, they…
Read More2013/2014 Euroleague: Round 5, Friday
Round 5 of the 2013/2014 Euroleague season is done and dusted after Friday´s games. It proved to be a good night for home teams as no club recorded a road win as the night threw up several key contests. CSKA Moscow demolished Partizan in Russia to keep in touch in Group A, while Olympiacos came…
Read MoreEuroleague Round 5: roundup
The second night of Euroleague Round 5 action in the has finished and it was a night in which Maccabi Tel Aviv downed old rivals Panathinaikos at home. Thursday featured some of the closest matches in recent weeks as Barcelona continued to find consistency with a road win over Kiev and Kuban narrowly defeated Kutxa…
Read MoreEuroleague: Madrid puts Efes to the sword
Real Madrid put on a Euroleague masterclass on Wednesday night as the Spanish giants destroyed Anadolu Efes in the opening game of the 5th round. The Efes players would have been on a high after seeing off Zalgiris last week to go second in Group B, but Madrid was in unforgiving mood and swept the…
Read MoreEurocup: EWE beats Bilbao to top Group B
Eurocup Week 5 of the 2013/2014 Eurocup got underway as the competitions Regular Season landed at the half way point. Six of this weeks 24 games were contested on Tuesday night and it was business as usual for teams vying at the tops of groups. The big game of the night was in Germany, where…
Read MoreUkraine Superleague: Budivelnyk’s woes continue
Ukraine – Budivelnyk Kyiv is on a tailspin and needs to get its act together. On November 8 they suffered a brutal loss at the hands of French ProA team JSF Nanterre, 80:61, in the Euroleague. Their problems continued last night as they fell to 2-3 in the Ukrainian Superleague, this time to Hoverla Ivano-Frankivsk,…
Read MoreGerman BBL: Alba hands Bayern 1st loss
The top spot in the German BBL just got crowded as the No.1 club, FC Bayern Munich, was toppled by Alba Berlin, 94:74, for their first loss of the season. The result brings Munich in line with Telekom Baskets Bonn and the Artland Dragons, all at 7-1. For Alba’s part, they improve to 4-2, while…
Read MoreEuroleague: Round 4, Friday recap
Round 4 of the 2013/2014 Euroleague was completed on Friday night as teams from Group A and Group C took to the court. There were few surprises on the night as in form team Fenerbahce continued to lay down a claim on the Euroleague title with a tricky road win over Partizan NIS Belgrade. Elsewhere…
Read MoreEuroleague: Maccabi Electra wins third straight
A win by a deuce counts the same as a win by a dozen… Maccabi Electra, seen to be struggling in the early part of the 2013-14 season, made it three straight in Euroleague competition with a 74:76 victory on the road against Lietuvos Rytas on Thursday. It wasn’t a good day for the home…
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