It was Aris's largest road win of the season.
Aris blows past Ulm, 66-86, and gets within reach of the playoffs

Aris Midea Thessaloniki moved a step closer towards clinching its playoff ticket with a resounding 66-86 road win over ratiopharm Ulm on Wednesday night. Aris improved to 8-9 in Group B, which — combined with Turk Telekom Ankara's loss — put the Greek side in a great position to book its spot in the postseason and even give it a chance at hosting a game in the eighthfinals. That is due to winning the head-to-head tiebreaker with Ulm, which, on the other hand, dropped to 9-8 in fourth place.
Ronnie Harrell shined with 19 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 6 steals and 2 blocks for the winners. Vassilis Toliopoulos netted 17 points and Roberts Blumbergs had 11 points plus 7 rebounds in the victory. LJ Figueroa and Trevion Williams each scored 14 in a losing effort.
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The visitors had no answers for Ulm's offense early on. Williams scored 6 points inside before Figueroa got hot, scoring 11 straight points, including 3 three-pointers to open a 19-11 lead. Toliopoulos answered with a three to get Aris's offense going, and after Pacome Dadiet knocked down a triple and a jumper for Ulm, Aris had a strong finish to the quarter with Harrell sinking a triple that made it 26-23.
After making 11 of 13 field goals in the first quarter, Ulm did not score a single point in the first 3 and a half minutes of the second and needed almost 6 minutes to score its first field goal. Aris used its defensive effort for a 0-8 run behind Harrell and Kris Bankston. A triple apiece from Harrell and Toliopoulos made it 31-39 before Tobias Jensen scored a triple for Ulm, the hosts' first field goal of the quarter. The teams traded baskets the rest of the quarter before Toliopoulos beat the halftime buzzer, banking a circus-shot triple to make it 40-49 at halftime.
After the break, Aris opened a double-digit margin through Nikolaos Persidis and Harrell, 42-53. After a dunk by Williams, Harrell's three-pointer sparked a 0-9 run, with a reverse dunk from Silvio De Sousa opening a 44-62 advantage. Aris did not stop there, but another basket by De Sousa and a triple from Toliopoulos made it 45-67 with 5 minutes to go in the third quarter. Ulm was without a field goal for the final 8:16 of the quarter, as Aris went up 46-69, and took 48-71 into the fourth quarter.
Karim Jallow scored the first 5 points of the fourth quarter, and Georginho De Paula added a second-chance layup to cut it to 55-71. Toliopoulos ended a 3-minute scoring drought for the visitors, but a tip-in from Williams closed it to 58-73 with 6 minutes to go. But Bankston and Johnathan Starks scored for Aris on back-to-back possessions, to quickly extend it back to 19 points. There was not coming back for Ulm, as Aris closed out the game.