Euroleague
Euroleague Top 16, Friday roundup
Round 2 of the Euroleague Top 16 was completed on Friday with four more contests around the continent, with the bulk of the action taking place in Group E. There were three home wins on the night, with Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar, Panathinaikos, and Brose Baskets Bamberg all delivering in front of home support. The sole…
Read MoreEuroleague Top 16: CSKA stuns Madrid
The Euroleague Top 16 entered its second week for the 2015/2016 season and as always at this stage every encounter was mouthwatering. Each contest lived up to billing as there was plenty of hot hoops on display in Europe’s elite competition on Thursday. There was just a single game in Group E, with Cedevita Zagreb…
Read MoreEuroleague Top 16: round 1 recap
Round 1 of the Euroleague Top 16 has closed and with it has brought to an end 2015 in Europe’s elite club competition. We now look forward to plenty of action in 2016, when a champion for the 2015/2016 season will be crowned. There is a long way to go until the Final Four and…
Read MoreEuroleague Top 16 tips off
Every game is massive now as the Euroleague Top 16 tipped off with round one action, ushered in by three contests on Tuesday. There will be a further six games on Wednesday in what is the only Top 16 round to be played in 2015, the rest of the Euroleague will now be competed in…
Read MoreEuroleague: Real Madrid makes Top 16
The door to the Top 16 is closing this week in the Euroleague as the Regular Season enters its final week, with six games on Thursday and a further six contests on Friday. Two more spots were taken in the next round this evening as Real Madrid completed a turnaround to progress from Group A…
Read MoreEuroleague Round 9 tips off
There are six Euroleague Top 16 places up for grabs as we enter Round 9 of the Regular Season, but none of them were secured on Thursday as the week’s action opened. There was plenty of jostling for position though and many clubs now sit on the precipice of qualifying or crashing out. Group B…
Read MoreEuroleague, Friday recap
The story of Friday in the Euroleague involved a club that did not even take part in any of the action on the night, Zalgiris Kaunas. The Lithuanian giant had opened this week’s Euroleague action with a victory on Wednesday and qualified because of other results tonight, despite being idle. In the other news, Group…
Read MoreEuroleague: two more progress to Top 16
Zalgiris Kaunas opened Round 8 of the 2015/2016 Euroleague on Wednesday with a win over Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir at home, and on Thursday there were six contests. Friday will complete the Round 8 picture and we will have a clearer view of the Top 16 too as a further five games will take place before…
Read MoreEuroleague, two more through, Madrid downed again
Friday in the Euroleague saw two more clubs, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar and Brose Baskets Bamberg move into the Top 16, which now has seven of its occupants locked. The other big news of the night was the continued demise of Real Madrid, the current Euroleague champions falling on the road to Crvena Zvezda Belgrade. The…
Read MoreEuroleague: four clubs reach Top 16
The Top 16 is beckoning for a slew of clubs as the flood gates opened in the Euroleague at the start of Round 7 of the Regular Season. Unicaja Malaga, Olympiacos Piraeus, Fenerbahce Istanbul, and Barcelona all grabbed wins that sent them through to the next phase of the competition. There were three other games…
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