March 16, 2021 - Top 16 MVP: Vince Hunter, Virtus Segafredo Bologna
The
2020-21 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 was a non-stop battle that finished with
only one undefeated team left standing, Virtus Segafredo Bologna. For
his outstanding play in leading Virtus to the playoffs and keeping his
team undefeated for the season, Euroleague Basketball has chosen power
forward Vince Hunter as this season's Top 16 MVP. Hunter led the
competition's second phase in performance index rating at 20.7 per
game. He ranked fourth in rebounds with 7.2 on average and tied for
sixth in blocks with 1.2. He improved his team's overall performance at
both ends of the court and took Virtus to a new level that now comes
with a guarantee of home-court advantage in the remaining playoff
rounds. The Top 16 MVP award was introduced in the 2016-17 season. Read
more here.
March 11, 2021 - MVP of the Week: Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Lokomotiv
In
a must-win situation on the final day of the 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16,
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas stepped up to
the task of carrying his team to a win just big enough for a place in
the quarterfinals and, in so doing, earned the MVP of the Week award.
Lokomotiv clinched its seventh quarterfinals berth in eight EuroCup
seasons with a 100-86 win over Dolomiti Energia Trento. Kuzminskas led
the way with a career-best 26 points by making 6 of 10 two-point shots,
3 of 5 threes and 5 of 6 free throws. Kuzminskas had another pair of
career highs, 37:42 minutes played and 9 rebounds, contributing to a
performance index rating of 33, the highest in Top 16 Round 6 and the
second-best of his EuroCup career. Two players, Rashawn Thomas of
Partizan NIS Belgrade and Mathias Lessort of AS Monaco, came next with
PIRs of 31 each. Read more here.
March 8, 2021 - Round 6
Eleven teams are battling for five remaining tickets
to the 7DAYS EuroCup Quarterfinals in the Top 16 finales this week.
Those five teams will advance to join Virtus Segafredo Bologna, UNICS
Kazan and AS Monaco in the next stage. The action is split evenly with
four games on Tuesday and four on Wednesday. Read more here.
Group E
Nanterre 92 vs. Joventut Badalona 88-95
Unicaja Malaga vs. AS Monaco 89-98
Group F
Partizan NIS Belgrade vs. Boulogne Metropolitans 92 70-75
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar vs. Dolomiti Energia Trento 100-86
Group G
Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 79-66
Virtus Segafredo Bologna vs. JL Bourg en Bresse 83-62
Group H
MoraBanc Andorra vs. Mornar Bar 89-61
Herbalife Gran Canaria vs. UNICS Kazan 96-90
March 4, 2021 - MVP of the Week: Jaime Fernandez, Unicaja
Early
elimination from the Top 16 did nothing to prevent ex-champion Unicaja
Malaga's pride from shining through in Round 5 nor point guard Jaime
Fernandez from seizing the first MVP of the Week honor in his
five-season 7DAYS EuroCup career. Fernandez set or matched three career
highs -- a performance index rating of 33, 10 assists and 6 rebounds --
in leading Unicaja past host Joventut Badalona 77-90 on Tuesday. His 22
points fell one short of tying another personal mark. Will Cummings of
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar was second this week with a PIR of 32 on
near-perfect shooting in a do-or-die 61-83 road win at Boulogne
Metropolitans 92. Cummings made 3 of 5 two-point shots, his only
triple, and 9 of 9 free throws for 18 points to go with 4 assists and 2
steals. Read more here.
March 2, 2021 - Round 5
The penultimate round of the Top 16 will have its
eight games evenly split over two days, with a dozen teams fighting for
six remaining tickets to the quarterfinals, though not all six can be
decided by the end of the round. Only three teams control their own
destiny and can advance with a Round 5 win and all three are playing at
home: As Monaco in Group E, Boulogne Metropolitans 92 in Group F and
Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana in Group G. Seven different teams are
facing elimination, too. Read more here.
Group E
AS Monaco vs. Nanterre 92 98-94
Joventut Badalona vs. Unicaja Malaga 77-90
Group F
Dolomiti Energia Trento vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 69-54
Boulogne Metropolitans 92 vs. Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 61-83
Group G
JL Bourg en Bresse vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 89-92
Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana vs. Virtus Segafredo Bologna 98-108
Group H
UNICS Kazan vs. MoraBanc Andorra 85-63
Mornar Bar vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria 81-85
February 4, 2021 - MVP of the Week: Alpha Kaba, Nanterre 92
Center
Alpha Kaba put on the best performance of his 7DAYS EuroCup career to
boost Nanterre 92 to a come-from-behind 80-74 home win over Unicaja
Malaga that has earned the 25-year-old his first MVP of the Week honor.
Kaba posted a career-high 21 points and tied his previous best with 15
total rebounds while his 7 offensive boards set Nanterre's club record.
He made 6 pf 9 two-point shots for a career-high performance index
rating of 33, which also tied Nanterre's club record. This week's
second-best PIR was 32 and belonged to AS Monaco playmaker Dee Bost,
who had 17 points, a career-high 11 assists and 4 rebounds in a win
over visiting Joventut Badalona. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica center Willie
Reed had a PIR of 30 after collecting 16 points, 11 rebounds and 2
blocks in a home loss to unbeaten Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Read more here.
February 1, 2021 - Round 4
Each of the four group leaders can reach the 7DAYS
EuroCup Quarterfinals with a victory in Round 4. The first two are the
visitors in the lone games on Tuesday; AS Monaco hosts Joventut
Badalona on Tuesday at 19:00 CET and Boulogne Metropolitans 92 visits
Dolomiti Energia Trento an hour later. The remaining Round 4 games will
be played on Wednesday. Read more here.
Group E
Nanterre 92 vs. Unicaja Malaga 80-74
AS Monaco vs. Joventut Badalona 97-82
Group F
Partizan NIS Belgrade vs. Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 71-69
Dolomiti Energia Trento vs. Boulogne Metropolitans 92 67-57
Group G
Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Virtus Segafredo Bologna 89-99
JL Bourg en Bresse vs. Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 64-77
Group H
MoraBanc Andorra vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria 74-79
UNICS Kazan vs. Mornar Bar 86-61
January 28, 2021 - MVP of the Week: Jaka Blazic, Olimpija
Already
playing the best season of his career, swingman Jaka Blazic took it to
another level on Wednesday, dominating in Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana's
exciting 94-91 home win over JL Bourg en Bresse to earn the first
weekly MVP honor of his 7DAYS EuroCup career. Blazic shone with 30
points, making 3 of 5 two-point shots, a career-best 5 of 8 threes and
9 of 10 free throws. He also collected 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 11
fouls drawn to accumulate a career-high performance index rating of 41.
His 30 points and 41 PIR are the best in the Top 16 so far this season.
The two next-best performers of the week come from the same game, in
which Nanterre 92 downed Unicaja Malaga on the road 82-92. Unicaja
forward Tim Abromaitis had career highs of 26 points and 32 PIR to go
with 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 7 fouls drawn. Read more here.
January 25, 2021 - Round 3
Round 3 of the 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 will bring us to
the midway point of this phase and some winners could potentially start
to think about quarterfinals contention as soon as Round 4, when all of
this week's home teams will face the same opponents on the road. Group
E brings a top-of-the-table clash when Joventut Badalona hosts AS
Monaco, while Group H presents a contest between two Spanish League
teams that know each other well, Herbalife Gran Canaria and MoraBanc
Andorra. Read more here.
Group E
Unicaja Malaga vs. Nanterre 92 83-92
Joventut Badalona vs. AS Monaco 79-72
Group F
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 74-67
Boulogne Metropolitans 92 vs. Dolomiti Energia Trento 92-86
Group G
Virtus Segafredo Bologna vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 87-65
Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana vs. JL Bourg en Bresse 94-91
Group H
Herbalife Gran Canaria vs. MoraBanc Andorra 63-66
Mornar Bar vs. UNICS Kazan 70-87
January 21, 2021 - MVP of the Week: Luke Maye, Dolomiti Energia Trento
Dolomiti
Energia Trento forward Luke Maye put on a dominant performance in his
team's first Top 16 Group F victory to walk away with the 7DAYS EuroCup
MVP of the Week award. Maye was relentless in scoring 25 points and
pulling 15 rebounds over 31 minutes to pile up a performance index
rating of 34. It was the best PIR of Maye's rookie EuroCup season so
far and the highest in eight games this week. His rebound total broke
his previous Trento club record in EuroCup play. Right behind him with
a PIR of 32 was Mathias Lessort of AS Monaco in a 96-84 home win over
his former team, Unicaja Malaga. Lessort PIR and 20 points were career
highs, as were his 4 steals and 8 offensive rebounds, the latter of
which was a Monaco club record. Read more here.
January 18, 2021 - Round 2
Five road winners from the opening round of the
7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 will pull out all the stops to make good on those
successes by winning at home in Round 2 and putting an early grip on
first place in their respective groups. And those five don't even
include the only undefeated for the season, Virtus Segafredo Bologna,
which takes its show on the road this week. Just as intent on flipping
the script, however, are all the losing teams from Round 1, whose
efforts guarantee battles aplenty on Tuesday and Wednesday. Read more here.
Group E
Joventut Badalona vs. Nanterre 92 95-90 AS Monaco vs. Unicaja Malaga 90-71
Group F
Boulogne Metropolitans 92 vs. Partizan NIS Belgrade 79-62 Dolomiti Energia Trento vs. Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 96-84
Group G
Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 74-71 JL Bourg en Bresse vs. Virtus Segafredo Bologna 87-99
Group H
Mornar Bar vs. MoraBanc Andorra 71-74 UNICS Kazan vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria 73-62
January 14, 2021 - MVP of the Week: Isaiah Whitehead, Mornar
Just
as his team, Mornar Bar, made history with its first 7DAYS EuroCup Top
16 victory ever in Round 1, guard Isaiah Whitehead claimed his first
MVP of the Week honor with a stellar performance in that thrilling
100-102 road win against Herbalife Gran Canaria. Whitehead scored a
career-high 28 points by making 6 of 11 two-point shots, 4 of 4
three-pointers and 4 of 4 free throws on Wednesday night. He added 5
assists, 3 rebounds, a block and 4 fouls drawn for a PIR of 30, also
his career high. Whitehead's efforts led Mornar to club records of 102
points and 114 PIR. In the same game, guard A.J. Slaughter of Gran
Canaria had the highest PIR of the week, 34. Slaughter scored 23 points
on 5-for-6 three-point shooting and dished 10 assists in a losing
effort. Read more here.
January 10, 2021 - Round 1
After an exciting regular season, the 7DAYS EuroCup
Top 16 is set and ready to bring even more thrills in the coming two
months. Four groups of four teams each will play six games between
January 12 and March 10, 2021, with top two teams from each group
moving on to the quarterfinals. Three of the new Top 16 groups have at
least one former competition champion, while the remaining group has
this season's lone undefeated team. Read more here.
Group E
Nanterre 92 vs. AS Monaco 65-93
Unicaja Malaga vs. Joventut Badalona 86-95
Group F
Partizan NIS Belgrade vs. Dolomiti Energia Trento 71-43
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar vs. Boulogne Metropolitans 92 79-83
Group G
Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. JL Bourg en Bresse 108-80
Virtus Segafredo Bologna vs. Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 90-76
Group H
MoraBanc Andorra vs. UNICS Kazan 66-73
Herbalife Gran Canaria vs. Mornar Bar 100-102
December 31, 2020 - 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 groups, calendar
After an exciting regular season, the 7DAYS EuroCup
Top 16 is set and ready to bring even more thrills in the coming two
months. Four groups of four teams each will play six games between
January 12 and March 10, 2021, with top two teams from each group
moving on to the quarterfinals. Three of the new Top 16 groups have at
least one former competition champion, while the remaining group has
this season's lone undefeated team. Group E features two former
champions, fellow Spanish rivals Unicaja Malaga and Joventut Badalona,
who have combined for 15 victories so far this season and are set to
play each other in Round 1. The two will be challenged hard in this
group by AS Monaco, a quarterfinalist last season, and fellow French
League side Nanterre 92. The makeup of Group F starts with the 2013
champion Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar, winner of eight regular-season
games this season. Lokomotiv's quest to reach its seventh quarterfinal
in eighth EuroCup appearances in the competition will start against
Boulogne Metropolitans 92, which won seven regular season games, and
will also be tested against two teams with 6-4 records in the regular
season, Partizan NIS Belgrade and Dolomiti Energia Trento. Read more here.
The
2020-21 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 was a non-stop battle that finished with
only one undefeated team left standing, Virtus Segafredo Bologna. For
his outstanding play in leading Virtus to the playoffs and keeping his
team undefeated for the season, Euroleague Basketball has chosen power
forward Vince Hunter as this season's Top 16 MVP. Hunter led the
competition's second phase in performance index rating at 20.7 per
game. He ranked fourth in rebounds with 7.2 on average and tied for
sixth in blocks with 1.2. He improved his team's overall performance at
both ends of the court and took Virtus to a new level that now comes
with a guarantee of home-court advantage in the remaining playoff
rounds. The Top 16 MVP award was introduced in the 2016-17 season. Read
more 
In
a must-win situation on the final day of the 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16,
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas stepped up to
the task of carrying his team to a win just big enough for a place in
the quarterfinals and, in so doing, earned the MVP of the Week award.
Lokomotiv clinched its seventh quarterfinals berth in eight EuroCup
seasons with a 100-86 win over Dolomiti Energia Trento. Kuzminskas led
the way with a career-best 26 points by making 6 of 10 two-point shots,
3 of 5 threes and 5 of 6 free throws. Kuzminskas had another pair of
career highs, 37:42 minutes played and 9 rebounds, contributing to a
performance index rating of 33, the highest in Top 16 Round 6 and the
second-best of his EuroCup career. Two players, Rashawn Thomas of
Partizan NIS Belgrade and Mathias Lessort of AS Monaco, came next with
PIRs of 31 each. Read more 
Early
elimination from the Top 16 did nothing to prevent ex-champion Unicaja
Malaga's pride from shining through in Round 5 nor point guard Jaime
Fernandez from seizing the first MVP of the Week honor in his
five-season 7DAYS EuroCup career. Fernandez set or matched three career
highs -- a performance index rating of 33, 10 assists and 6 rebounds --
in leading Unicaja past host Joventut Badalona 77-90 on Tuesday. His 22
points fell one short of tying another personal mark. Will Cummings of
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar was second this week with a PIR of 32 on
near-perfect shooting in a do-or-die 61-83 road win at Boulogne
Metropolitans 92. Cummings made 3 of 5 two-point shots, his only
triple, and 9 of 9 free throws for 18 points to go with 4 assists and 2
steals. Read more 
Center
Alpha Kaba put on the best performance of his 7DAYS EuroCup career to
boost Nanterre 92 to a come-from-behind 80-74 home win over Unicaja
Malaga that has earned the 25-year-old his first MVP of the Week honor.
Kaba posted a career-high 21 points and tied his previous best with 15
total rebounds while his 7 offensive boards set Nanterre's club record.
He made 6 pf 9 two-point shots for a career-high performance index
rating of 33, which also tied Nanterre's club record. This week's
second-best PIR was 32 and belonged to AS Monaco playmaker Dee Bost,
who had 17 points, a career-high 11 assists and 4 rebounds in a win
over visiting Joventut Badalona. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica center Willie
Reed had a PIR of 30 after collecting 16 points, 11 rebounds and 2
blocks in a home loss to unbeaten Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Read more 
Already
playing the best season of his career, swingman Jaka Blazic took it to
another level on Wednesday, dominating in Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana's
exciting 94-91 home win over JL Bourg en Bresse to earn the first
weekly MVP honor of his 7DAYS EuroCup career. Blazic shone with 30
points, making 3 of 5 two-point shots, a career-best 5 of 8 threes and
9 of 10 free throws. He also collected 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 11
fouls drawn to accumulate a career-high performance index rating of 41.
His 30 points and 41 PIR are the best in the Top 16 so far this season.
The two next-best performers of the week come from the same game, in
which Nanterre 92 downed Unicaja Malaga on the road 82-92. Unicaja
forward Tim Abromaitis had career highs of 26 points and 32 PIR to go
with 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 7 fouls drawn. Read more 
Dolomiti
Energia Trento forward Luke Maye put on a dominant performance in his
team's first Top 16 Group F victory to walk away with the 7DAYS EuroCup
MVP of the Week award. Maye was relentless in scoring 25 points and
pulling 15 rebounds over 31 minutes to pile up a performance index
rating of 34. It was the best PIR of Maye's rookie EuroCup season so
far and the highest in eight games this week. His rebound total broke
his previous Trento club record in EuroCup play. Right behind him with
a PIR of 32 was Mathias Lessort of AS Monaco in a 96-84 home win over
his former team, Unicaja Malaga. Lessort PIR and 20 points were career
highs, as were his 4 steals and 8 offensive rebounds, the latter of
which was a Monaco club record. Read more 
Just
as his team, Mornar Bar, made history with its first 7DAYS EuroCup Top
16 victory ever in Round 1, guard Isaiah Whitehead claimed his first
MVP of the Week honor with a stellar performance in that thrilling
100-102 road win against Herbalife Gran Canaria. Whitehead scored a
career-high 28 points by making 6 of 11 two-point shots, 4 of 4
three-pointers and 4 of 4 free throws on Wednesday night. He added 5
assists, 3 rebounds, a block and 4 fouls drawn for a PIR of 30, also
his career high. Whitehead's efforts led Mornar to club records of 102
points and 114 PIR. In the same game, guard A.J. Slaughter of Gran
Canaria had the highest PIR of the week, 34. Slaughter scored 23 points
on 5-for-6 three-point shooting and dished 10 assists in a losing
effort. Read more 
