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    Tuesday Round of 16 games preview

    The second week of the Round of 16 continues with three games from three different groups on Tuesday February 1. Some teams are playing their first game this round, while others are playing their second.

    MIES (Switzerland) - The second week of the Round of 16 continues with three games from three different groups on Tuesday February 1. Some teams are playing their first game this round, while others are playing their second.

    Here's a look at the three games scheduled for Tuesday:

    Game 1: Darussafaka (0-1) vs. Nutribullet Treviso (0-0) - Group J

    Where: Istanbul, Turkey

    When: 20:00 CET

    Darussafaka lost their first Round of 16 game to Tofas Bursa, 91-81, while Treviso have yet to play a Round of 16 game.

    Darussafaka

    Points per game: Gabe Olaseni 14.7
    Rebounds per game: Gabe Olaseni 6.2
    Assists per game: Troy Caupain 5.5
    Steals per game: Dogus Ozdemiroglu 2.9
    Blocks per game: Nathan Boothe 0.6

    PPG 78.3 (14), RPG 34.8 (16), APG 16.2 (23)
    Darussafaka have won four of their seven home games played in the BCL, including three of the most recent four; they got their biggest win in the competition in their most recent home game, 85-66, against Hereda San Pablo Burgos in the Play-Ins.
    Gabe Olaseni has scored 10+ points in each of his last three BCL games, including a personal-high of 26 points in his last game, but he has never done that in four games in a row; he is averaging 14.7 points per game with Darussafaka in the BCL after averaging only 6 points per game in his previous BCL season, in 2016-17 with Banco di Sardegna Sassari. [/unordered]
    Treviso

    Points per game: Tomas Dimsa 16.1
    Rebounds per game: Aaron Jones 8.3
    Assists per game: DeWayne Russell 5.6
    Steals per game: DeWayne Russell 1.4
    Blocks per game: Henry Sims 1.9

    PPG 82.5 (6), RPG 37.6 (9), APG 19.4 (7)

     

    Treviso have won their last three BCL games but are yet to win four in a row in the competition; each of their last three games ended with a double-digit margin after seeing a 10+ margin in only one of their first five BCL games.
    Treviso have won 74% of the rebounds on the defensive end, the highest such ratio amongst all teams in the BCL this season; Treviso have conceded just 8.6 points per game in second chance situations, the second lowest average in the league in 2021-22 (Unicaja, 7.3).
    Tomas Dimsa has scored 10+ points in 18 of his 23 BCL games but one of the five times he failed to reach that mark was away at BAXI Manresa, with Lietkabelis in October 2019 (8 pts); however, he is yet to score 20+ points in a BCL game. Aaron Jones has grabbed 10+ rebounds in each of his last three away games in the BCL, only Emmanuel Terry has grabbed 10+ rebounds in more away games in a row in the competition (6). [/unordered]

    Game 2: Prometey (0-0) vs. U-BT Cluj Napoca (1-0) - Group K

    *This scheduled game has been postponed, following the Return to Play Protocol established by the Basketball Champions League, and is rescheduled for March 3.

     Where: Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

    When: 19:00 CET

    Cluj Napoca won their first Round of 16 game against Unicaja, 79-73, while Prometey have yet to play a Round of 16 game after being the last team to qualify for this stage.

    Prometey

    Points per game: D'Angelo Harrison 15.0
    Rebounds per game: D.J. Kennedy 7.1
    Assists per game: Chris Dowe 3.7
    Steals per game: D.J. Kennedy 1.1
    Blocks per game: Miro Bilan 0.9

    PPG 77.3 (18), RPG 39.8 (2), APG 16.1 (24)

     

    Prometey is the first Ukrainian team to reach the Round of 16 in a BCL season.
    Prometey have won their last two home games in the BCL after losing their first two; they scored 80+ points in each of their two home wins but 70 points or fewer in their two home defeats.
    D.J. Kennedy has had three games with 15+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists, the most of any player in the BCL this season. D'Angelo Harrison has scored 10+ points in his last seven BCL games, tied for his longest streak in the competition; however, five of the six games where he didn’t manage to score in double figures came at home. Harrison swiped four steals in Game 3 of the Play-In series against Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem; before that, he only had three total steals in his previous eight appearances with Prometey in the BCL this season. [/unordered]

     

    Cluj Napoca

    Points per game: Brandon Brown 16.0
    Rebounds per game: Dustin Hogue 6.7
    Assists per game: Brandon Brown 6.0
    Steals per game: Brandon Brown 2.2
    Blocks per game: Elijah Stewart 1.4

    PPG 86.0 (2), RPG 36.6 (10), APG 20.0 (4)
    Cluj Napoca have won six of their seven BCL games, their only defeat coming away from home (68-78 against Hapoel U-NET Holon); they are one of the three teams, alongside Tofas Bursa and Falco Szombathely, to have never seen a final margin greater than 10 points this season.
    Cluj Napoca have attempted (27.1) and made (18.3) the most free-throws per game in the BCL this season.
    Brandon Brown has made 3+ three-pointers in each of his five BCL games with Cluj Napoca this season, as only John Roberson has done it in more games this season (6); he scored 3+ three-pointers in only four of his 16 games with Nizhny Novgorod previously in the league. [/unordered]

    Game 3: JDA Dijon (0-1) vs. Hapoel U-NET Holon (0-0) - Group I

    Where: Dijon, France

    When: 20:30 CET

    Dijon lost their first Round of 16 game to MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg, 95-73, while Holon have yet to play a Round of 16 game.

    Dijon

    Points per game: Gavin Ware 13.2
    Rebounds per game: Rashard Kelly 7.2
    Assists per game: David Holston 5.6
    Steals per game: Khadeen Carrington 1.8
    Blocks per game: Jacques Alingue 0.9

    PPG 75.8 (25), RPG 33.0 (26), APG 17.7 (16)
    Dijon have won nine of their last 10 games at home in the BCL, with eight of those 10 games ending with a differential of 10 or more points.
    Dijon are suffering only 16 personal fouls per game from their opponents this season in the BCL, fewer than any other team, and consequently, they have the lowest average of free-throws made this season (8.4 per game).
    David Holston has dished out exactly eight assists in each of his last two BCL games but has never tallied 8+ assists in more consecutive games; Holston has made a total of 263 assists and is six assists away from overtaking Eugene Lawrence as the sixth player with the most assists in the competition (268). [/unordered]
    Holon

    Points per game: Chris Johnson 14.9
    Rebounds per game: Chris Johnson 5.6
    Assists per game: Joe Ragland 7.3
    Steals per game: Chris Johnson 1.2
    Blocks per game: Michale Kyser 1.1

    PPG 79.1 (11), RPG 34.2 (19), APG 19.1 (10)

     

    Holon have won their last two BCL games but have not won more in a row since a run of five straight wins between December 2020-March 2021.
    Joe Ragland has made more than five assists in each of his last 12 games in the BCL, the best such run for any player in the history of the competition; he is averaging the most assists per game among all players this season (7.3). [/unordered]
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