Ante Zizic is standing tall in the BKT EuroCup. The Besiktas GAIN Istanbul big man delivered another monster performance to claim Regular Season Round 14 MVP honors with a PIR of 34 — the best of the round.
Zizic was unstoppable in Besiktas’s thrilling 103-99 road win over Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse, scoring 26 points on near-perfect shooting: 9-of-10 inside the arc and 8-of-10 from the line. He added 4 rebounds, 1 steal, 1 block, and drew 8 fouls to power his team past the Group B leaders.
He joins reigning MVP Jared Harper of Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem and Bryce Jones of Aris Thessaloniki Betsson as the only players with multiple MVP of the Round nods this season. Zizic also joined Mire Chatman as just the second Besiktas player to capture multiple MVP honors.
Behind Zizic, Fatts Russell of U-BT Cluj-Napoca and Christopher Ledlum of ratiopharm ulm shared second place with PIRs of 30. Russell fueled Cluj’s 103-92 win over Veolia Towers Hamburg with 23 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists, while Ledlum led Ulm past NINERS Chemnitz with 23 points and 4 assists. Carl Wheatle (Umana Reyer Venice) and Zacharie Perrin (Hamburg) rounded out the top performances with PIRs of 29.
Individual highs: Chris Horton of Reyer, 14 rebounds
Ante Zizic led all scorers with 26 points in his team's road win at Bourg. Fatts Russell of U-BT Cluj-Napoca is the competition's top scorer with 21.2 points per game.
Chris Horton of Umana Reyer Venice grabbed 14 rebounds in a 103-76 home winning effort over Slask Wroclaw. Austin Wiley of Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem leads the 2025-26 EuroCup in rebounds with 8.9 per night.
Corey Davis Jr. of NINERS Chemnitz and Yogi Ferrell of Buducnost VOLI Podgorica each dished 10 assists in Round 14. Arnas Velicka of Neptunas Klaipeda ranks first overall with 7.1 assists per game.
Justin Simon of ratiopharm ulm collected 4 steals in his team's 88-76 home win over Chemnitz. Dogus Ozdemiroglu of Turk Telekom Ankara leads the overall standings at 2.3 steals per night.
Niklas Wimberg of Hamburg had 3 blocks in Round 14. Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu of BAXI Manresa ranks first in blocks (1.64 bpg.), slightly ahead of Wiley (1.58 bpg.).
Eight players collected double-doubles in Round 14: Ferrell, Horton, Davis, his Chemnitz teammate Kevin Yebo, Denzel Valentine of Reyer, Malik Osborne of Ulm, Karel Guzman of Cluj and Perrin.