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Euroleague: Siena tops Olympiacos, sits at 4-0
For fans that like watching blow out hoop contests, this week had some of the best Euroleague play of the season. If not, then the game that did it for you was the last game on the schedule; the one that wasn’t decided until the last seconds of the competition when Montepaschi’s Bobby Brown took…
Read MoreEuroleague: CSKA and Real Madrid unbeaten
While it’s obviously purely a coincidence, it is interesting that Euroleague competitions last week were all won by the home clubs, and this week, the first five games have gone to the visitors. With three games left on the schedule, there’s a very good possibility that Euroleague Top 16 fans are in for another clean…
Read MoreThree remain undefeated in EuroCup Last 16
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…
Read MoreEuroChallenge Top 16: Home court advantage
The EuroChallenge Last 16 round tipped off on Tuesday with a full slate of eight contests. As was the case last week with the Euroleague matches, the EuroChallenge home squads had the upper hand as seven of eight victories went to the locals. The only exception was the Telekom Baskets Bonn victory over Okapi Aalstar…
Read MoreNCAA Top 25: Louisville takes over as No. 1
It only took one week… A week ago there were just three unbeaten teams in the ranks of NCAA basketball. Three powerhouse clubs, Duke, Michigan and Arizona came into the week with perfect records and one-by-one they fell until there were no more. First it was Arizona, who has had a number of close calls…
Read MoreUkraine Superleague: Top 3 have lost 7 of 9
Seven of the last nine games… That’s how many losses the top three teams in the Ukraine Superleague have lost recently. Currently sitting at the top of the standings, BC Budivelnyk has gone 1-2 over their last three games, with a home win on Sunday over BC Khimik, 89:67; a devastating home loss to then last-place…
Read MoreNCAA Top 25: No. 1 Duke falls to NC State
The NCAA unbeaten squads are dwindling daily as No. 1 Duke was upset by neighbor university, No. 20 ranked North Carolina State, 84:76 on Saturday, in Raleigh, NC. The loss leaves No. 2 Michigan the current sole possessor of an unbeaten record at 16-0. Michigan faces No. 15 Ohio State on Sunday, in Columbus, so…
Read MoreEuroleague: Clean sweep for home teams
The strategy in Euroleague Week 3 was simple, just be the home team and you’d be fine. Eight games, eight home club victories. It took a jumper from the corner behind the arc with less than 2.6 seconds to play for Real Madrid to earn the final win for the home teams over Zalgiris Kaunas,…
Read MoreEuroleague: Caja and CSKA extend win streaks
Both Caja Laboral and CSKA Moscow came into Euroleague Top 16 Week 3 with impressive Euroleague win streaks. Caja’s last defeat in Euroleague competition was on Nov. 23, 2012, when they were handed a serious beat-down at the hands of Zalgiris Kaunas (82:45). That match-up was seven games ago, since then they’ve been on a…
Read MoreEuroCup: Regular season undefeateds fall
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.
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