By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Up by double digits for most of the second half, AS Monaco prevailed, 117-96, over SLUC Nancy in Salle Gaston Medecin on Sunday.
Bouncing back from two losses in the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season earlier this week, head coach Vassilis Spanoulis enjoyed Mike James scoring 20 points behind 7/9 field goals, including four three-pointers. Juhann Begarin threw in a season-high 18 points. Vitto Brown, Mouhammadou Jaiteh, Jordan Loyd, and Elie Okobo did not suit up for the Round 16 affair.
Retaining a distance of 1.5 games for the leader of France’s Betclic Elite Regular Season, Cholet, La Roca Team improved to 11-4. Fellow Turkish Airlines EuroLeagure outfits, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne and Paris jumped to 12-4.
Theo Maledon packed 24 points, nine assists, and eight rebounds, lifting ASVEL in a 90-83 victory versus BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque. His side, still missing Charles Kahudi, Joffrey Lauvergne and Mbaye Ndiaye, mishandled a double-digit advantage before restoring the lead down the stretch in Astroballe.
In Salle Gaston Neveur, Nadir Hifi put in 24 points and Paris dominated en route to a 90-73 victory versus La Rochelle. T.J. Shorts II, Kevarrius Hayes, and Daulton Hommes sat out.
Betclic Elite Round 16
SIG Strasbourg – JL Bourg 70-76
Saint-Quentin – Elan Chalon 83-87
Cholet – Limoges CSP 96-86
JDA Dijon – ESSM Le Portel 90-82
Nanterre 92 – Le Mans 67-85
AS Monaco – SLUC Nancy 117-96
La Rochelle – Paris 73-90
LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne – BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque 90-83
STANDINGS: Cholet 13-3, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 12-4, Paris 12-4, AS Monaco 11-4, JL Bourg 10-6, Le Mans 10-6…
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