By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
One-way traffic at Malaga’s Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena with Unicaja destroying Karditsa Iaponiki, 115-84.
Mathematically first in Group G well before tipoff on Wednesday, the team coached by Ibon Navarro finished the Regular Season of the Basketball Champions League Season X, powered by Ameresco SUNEL, with a perfect 6-0 tally, and reduced the visitors to 2-4. Tucking in 66.4% from three-point range and with 67.2% on field goals, a bid to break the league record of 122 points in a single game emerged, but to no avail.
Fueling a seventh consecutive win across all competitions since early November and a BCL-high 17th straight home win, a league record of nine players went over ten points, including Jonathan Barreiro packing 15 points and Olek Balcerowski following with 14 behind 5/6 from the field. On the wrong end, with his side suffering a fifth loss in a row between the Champions League and Greece’s Stoiximan GBL Regular Season, Damien Jefferson recorded a game-high 26 points, a new personal best in his 2025-26 journey.
Besides injured David Kravish, Tyler Kalinoski and Tyson Perez sat out the Gameday 6 affair for the Malaga outfit. For the team coached by Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Francis Okoro was ruled out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season in November.
The back-to-back champions will resume the continental campaign in Group K of the Round of 16, alongside fellow ACB outfit, Joventut Badalona, and two eventual Play-In winners.
The Greek side will previously challenge the homecourt advantage of Spartak Office Shoes in a best-of-three Play-In series.