Clevin Hannah could not have picked a better moment to have his best scoring night of the season, lifting MoraBanc Andorra to a 74-64 eighthfinals win over Buducnost VOLI Podgorica.
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Andorra played from behind for just about the entire first half and a good portion of the third quarter. The hosts tied the game on multiple occasions and one of those was on Hannah's second triple of the night, tying the score at 42-42 early in the third. But Andorra could not get in front.
Until Hannah got it going.
His second-chance triple finally put Andorra up 49-47 midway through the third quarter and he added a three-point play to help the hosts open a 9-point lead late in the third.
Buducnost rallied behind D.J. Seeley and went in front 60-61 with 6:42 to go, but that's when Hannah – and Andorra's defense - took charge. Hannah answered with his fourth triple to quickly restore the hosts' lead and hit his fifth with 4:00 minutes to go to open a 67-61 margin. Andorra did not allow a single point for almost 6 minutes, and Hannah went on to knock down his sixth triple of the game with 57 seconds to go, making it an unsurmountable 70-61.
Hannah finished with a season-high 21 points and set a career-high by making 6 three-pointers on 10 attempts. He scored 18 of his points in the second half, while the entire Buducnost team scored 25 over that same period.
His barrage of triples gave Hannah 136 for his EuroCup career, which placed him 21st in competition history - and just 2 behind Tre Simmons for 20th place. Hannah's 42.5% is fourth-best among the 25 players with the most threes.
Thanks to his performance, Andorra and its new coach Oscar Quintana can now look towards the quarterfinals, where the team will face either Group B winner Gran Canaria or Slask Wroclaw.