BURSA (Türkiye) - Over the course of ten season of the Basketball Champions League, powered by Ameresco SUNEL, there have been plenty of comebacks.
However, one team has made it a habit. For the third consecutive week in the Round of 16, AEK BC won the game after entering the fourth quarter in a losing position.
They trailed after three quarters against Karditsa Iaponiki (59-53), ALBA BERLIN (70-64), and now Tofas Bursa (58-54), and yet, they stand tall at 3-0 halfway through the Round of 16.
Tofas Bursa were up by 10 points with under nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, but led by RaiQuan Gray, Vasilis Charalampopoulos and Frank Bartley, AEK came back to force overtime, going on to win it 93-90.
This was their third matchup in the BCL, and AEK's third win. Incredibly, all three wins were by exactly three points.
It was also AEK's 24th win when trailing after three quarters in BCL history. No other team has more than 14 such games.
AEK have now won 21 BCL games after trailing by 10+ points, no other team has more than 18 such victories.
Truly the ComebAEK kings of the BCL.