MIES (Switzerland) - In the first week of this season’s Basketball Champions League Quarter-Finals, both Galatasaray and Unicaja enjoyed blowout wins in Game 1.
Respectively moving back home to Türkiye and on the road in Italy, could they sweep ERA Nymburk and Pallacanestro Reggiana? We will see, but first check the 12 must-known facts, results, stats, and domestic results from the weekend from both fixtures.
Galatasaray vs. ERA Nymburk (1-0) - April 15 at 18:00 CET
Galatasaray have won three of their five games against Nymburk in the BCL, including the first leg of this Quarter-Finals tie (106-80), but they lost when they met in Türkiye earlier this season (75-87). Two of the four times Gala have scored more than 100 points in a BCL game were against Nymburk.
Galatasaray have won their last three BCL games, but they have won more in a row only once before, four wins in December 2023 - January 2024 and they have won their last six home games in the competition; Nymburk have won their last seven road games in the BCL, by an average margin of 16.3 points, and they were leading at halftime in each of those games.
Nymburk have grabbed 16.9 offensive rebounds per game in the BCL 2024-25, the most of any teams, and thus, they are the only team to have grabbed at least 40 percent of the rebounds available under their oppositions' boards this season (40.1%). However, Galatasaray are grabbing the most defensive rebounds per game among all teams this term (27.7).
Will Cummings scored 33 points in the first leg of these Quarter-Finals, the joint-most for a player with Galatasaray in the competition (Melo Trimble, also 33 vs. Nymburk in October 2021); Cummings has scored 95 points in five games against Nymburk in the BCL (19.0 per game on average), only DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell has scored more points than him against the Czech side (121).
Christian Bishop (Nymburk) has grabbed 10+ rebounds in three of his last four BCL games, including 12 in each of the most recent two, after never reaching double digits in rebounds in any of his first nine games in the competition. No player has ever grabbed 10+ rebounds in four games with ERA Nymburk in the BCL.
While Francesco Tabellini's team didn't play during the weekend in Czechia, Galatasaray kept on rolling by beating Bursaspor 95-89 with Ebuka Izundu's 23 points and 8 rebounds.
Pallacanestro Reggiana vs. Unicaja Malaga (0-1) - April 15 at 20:00 CET
Reggiana suffered their heaviest defeat in the BCL during the first leg of these Quarter-Finals against Unicaja (68-105), but they have won five of their last seven home games in the competition.
Unicaja have won nine of their last 10 road games in the BCL, scoring 89.6 points per game in the process, but two of their last three road games ended with margins of two points or fewer.
Unicaja have scored 10+ three-pointers in each of their seven BCL games played in 2025, their best such run in the competition; in fact, they have made 10+ three-pointers in 15 of their last 17 playoff games, including in each of the most recent nine.
Kwan Cheatham Jr (Pallacanestro Reggiana) has scored 10+ points in each of his last six BCL games, averaging 16.2 points per game in that run, after reaching double digits in scoring in only one of his first nine games (7.8 points per game on average).
Melvin Ejim has scored 10+ points in each of his last two BCL games, his first such run in 39 games with Unicaja in the competition; the last three times he scored 15+ points in BCL games were during Quarter-Finals (twice in March 2017 with Umana Reyer Venezia against Karsiyaka, and last week against Pallacanestro Reggiana).
Opposite results between Unicaja and Reggiana, as the reigning champions lost 84-75 to Valencia while the Italians stayed in contention for the domestic Playoffs with the 84-69 road win in Scafati. Cassius Winston had 21 points and 7 assists in his team's victory.