Fresh from last week's statement-making win in Madrid, Fenerbahce (17-11) will look to keep pushing for the top four against a Valencia team (13-15) battling to stay in the top ten.
Game Notes: Fenerbahce vs. Valencia



The visitor will look to the dynamic Semi Ojeleye to match the hustle of Fenerbahce's do-it-all Nigel Hayes-Davis, who powered the road win against Real Madrid with 17 points and 12 rebounds, and can take the confidence of knowing it has already beaten the Turkish team once this season with a 77-74 victory in Round 2. Brandon Davies top scored on that occasion with 18 points, and he has a key role in the paint against Fener center Johnathan Motley, who has posted double-digit scoring in eight consecutive games.
- The home team has won the last four games between these two teams, and Valencia has won four of the last five, including a 77-74 win in Round 2 behind 18 points from Brandon Davies.
- Valencia pulled down a club-record 50 rebounds in a 98-100 overtime road win over Fenerbahce in December 2019. In that same game, Bojan Dubljevic set the Valencia club record in PIR (42) and tied a club record in points (30).
- Fenerbahce's single-game record for free throws made, 16-for-16, was set by Nando De Colo against Valencia in that December 2019 game.
- Valencia's single-game record for steals is 5, which Omar Cook set against Fenerbahce Istanbul on March 3, 2011.
- Fenerbahce point guard Nick Calathes, forward Nigel Hayes-Davis and center Sertac Sanli were all teammates of Valencia big man Brandon Davies at FC Barcelona. Calathes and Davies were teammates for two seasons, from 2020 to 2022, while Hayes-Davis and Sanli joined them for the 2021-22 season. They all also played together under current Fenerbahce coach Sarunas Jasikevicius.
- Davies also played under Fenerbahce head coach Sarunas Jasikevicius at Zalgiris Kaunas from 2017 to 2019, and they reached the 2018 EuroLeague Final Four together.
- Calathes and Valencia forward Victor Claver were teammates at FC Barcelona during the 2020-21 season; they helped Barcelona reach the EuroLeague championship game.
- Fenerbahce's Marko Guduric has been a teammate of Valencia point guard Stefan Jovic on the Serbian national team, together they won the silver medal at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Valencia playmaker Chris Jones and Fenerbahce guards Scottie Wilbekin and Tyle Dorsey were backcourt mates at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv during the 2020-21 season.
- Jones scored a career-high 27 points to lead LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne to an 84-82 win over Fenerbahce in December 2021.
- Claver scored a career-high 21 points on a career-best 5-for-5 three-point shooting and posted his career-high in performance index rating with 24 playing for Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar against Fenerbahce in January 2016.
- Claver pulled down a career-best 12 total rebounds, including a career-high 7 offensive boards, playing for Lokomotiv against Fenerbahce in March 2016.
- Valencia center Brandon Davies posted his career high in offensive rebounds with 6 while playing for FC Barcelona against Fenerbahce in April 2021.
- Fenerbahce center Sertac Sanli set his career-highs in PIR (26) and steals (3) playing for Anadolu Efes Istanbul against Valencia in March 2021.