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Week 4 - Wednesday games preview

 

MIES (Switzerland) - Week four of the Basketball Champions League continues on Wednesday October 26 with three more games (not including the Game of the Week) and includes a matchup of two 0-2 teams looking for their elusive first win.

Here's a look at the three games on Wednesday:

Game 1: Tofas Bursa (0-2) v Falco Vulcano Szombathely (1-1) - Group A

Where: Bursa, Turkey

When: 19:00 local time

 

  • Tofas have lost their last five BCL games, their longest losing streak in the competition, after losing only three of their previous 13 games; five of their last seven games in the BCL ended with margins of three points or fewer.
  • Tofas are the only team to have scored fewer than 40 percent of their two-pointers this season in the BCL (39.8 percent) but have also forced their opponents to score only 44.3 percent of their two-pointers, best defensive ratio; they are the only team to be more accurate from behind the arc (42.9 percent) than from two-pointers.
  • Tofas' Tyler Ennis has combined for 10+ points and 5+ rebounds in each of his two games in the BCL this season, after doing it only once in his previous 11 encounters in the league; Ennis has been on the winning side in four of his five games at home in the BCL.
  • Szombathely have lost their last four away games in the BCL but have never lost five in a row; they lost by a 25-point margin their only previous away game in Turkey (74-49 v Besiktas in November 2019), tied for their biggest defeat in the competition.
  • Zoltan Perl has scored more than 20 points in three of his last four games with Szombathely in the BCL, as many times as in his previous 26 appearances in the league; Perl has scored a total of 347 points off the bench, the most amongst all players since his debut in the league, in 2019-20.

Game 2: Legia Warszawa (0-2) v Filou Oostende (0-2) - Group C

Where: Warsaw, Poland

When: 18:30 CET

 

  • Legia have lost their first two games in the BCL but only one Polish team has previously lost their first three games in the competition, Start Lublin in 2020-21; Legia lost the first quarter and the fourth quarter in each of their first two BCL games.
  • Ray McCallum scored 15 or more points in each of his two games with Legia in the BCL, being their only player to score in double figures in both games this season; he has also made exactly five assists in each of his two league appearances.
  • Oostende have lost their last three BCL games but have lost more in a row only once in the competition, a run of four defeats in the regular season 2016-17; Oostende won their most recent trip to Poland in the BCL, 75-70 against Torun in February 2020.
  • Oostende have scored 10+ three-pointers in each of their two games in this BCL season but have never scored 10+ three-pointers in more games in a row; however, Legia (28) have scored the most three-pointers among all teams this season in the BCL.
  • Keye van der Vuurst de Vries has made more than five assists in four of his last five BCL games with Oostende, including in his two appearances this season; however, he has never done it in more than two consecutive games. The Dutch international scored 15 points in his last BCL appearance (v Hapoel Holon) in his first game as a starter, his highest scoring game in the league (39 games played).

Game 3: UCAM Murcia (1-1) v SIG Strasbourg (2-0) - Group A

Where: Murcia, Spain

When: 20:30 CET

 

  • Murcia have won their last 10 home games in the BCL, however the most recent two ended with margins of three points or fewer; Murcia have won one and lost one of their previous two home
    games against French teams in the BCL.
  • Murcia are averaging 20.5 offensive rebounds per game, the most of any team in the BCL this season, however Strasbourg have grabbed 46 percent of the rebounds available under the opposition basket, the highest offensive rebound ratio in the league.
  • Thaddus McFadden has scored 12 or more points in three of his last four games in the BCL, including against Strasbourg in the 2021 Semi-Finals; McFadden has scored multiple three-pointers in three of those last four games, including 4-of-9 in his aforementioned matchup with Strasbourg.
  • Strasbourg have lost their last two away games in the BCL after winning six of the previous seven; they have lost their last two away games in Spain in the competition, failing to reach the 70-point mark in each of those three games.
  • Matt Mitchell has scored 17+ points in each of his last four BCL games with Strasbourg, after scoring that many points only once in his previous 13 games; Mitchell scored only 4 points in his previous league encounter with a Spanish team (v Lenovo Tenerife in February 2022), tied for his fewest points in a BCL game.

Game of the Week: Hapoel Holon (2-0) v Galatasaray Nef (2-0) - Group C

For a detailed preview on the Game of the Week, click here.