In the final game of the regular season, Umana Reyer Venice held off Group B leader Gran Canaria 69-76 to claim sixth place.
Reyer holds on to win, 69-76, at Gran Canaria



Reyer finished the stage with a 9-9 record and will face Boulogne Metropolitans 92 in the eighthfinals, while Gran Canaria, which dropped to 12-6, knew even before this game it would play Slask Wroclaw in the first round of the playoffs. The two teams traded leads throughout the game, and Reyer pulled away to a double-digit margin in the third quarter. Gran Canaria rallied, but Reyer used a 0-8 fourth-quarter run to take the lead for good. Jeff Brooks paced Reyer with 17 points, Jordan Theodore was everywhere with 16 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, and Mitchell Watt scored 15 points in the victory. For the hosts, John Shurna and Khalifa Diop scored 14 points apiece.
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Andrew Albicy and Aleksander Balcerowski scored early for Gran Canaria, before Reyer answered through Brooks and Theodore. After Albicy and Theodore traded three-pointers, Balcerowski inside and A.J. Slaughter with a jumper gave Gran Canaria a 14-13 edge. But Brooks nailed a three and Martynas Echodas scored in traffic to put the visitors up 14-19. Diop had a pair of alley-oop baskets, including one at the buzzer to cut it to 18-19 after 10 minutes.
Diop scored to open the second quarter, but Andrea De Nicolao and Bruno Cerella hit back-to-back threes for Reyer. Javi Lopez answered from downtown and Shurna hit a second-chance triple to cap an 8-0 run that made it 28-25. But Theodore nailed a baseline jumper and De Nicolao a triple to restore the visitors' lead. Watt scored 5 more points, including a three-point play that made it 31-37. After Shurna knocked down another second-chance three-pointer, Brooks scored twice more on the other end to make it 34-41 at halftime.
Watt had a close-range basket, but Slaughter fueled Gran Canaria's run of 6 straight points. A three-point play from Oliver Stevic cut the deficit to 43-45. But Reyer answered with a 0-8 run, with Julyan Stone sinking back-to-back threes to open the first double-digit margin of the game, 43-53, midway through the third. After a timeout, Albicy got the hosts going again with a triple, and after Cerella and Diop traded close-range baskets, a jumper from Shurna helped made it 54-57 after 30 minutes.
Nicolas Brussino and Diop put Gran Canaria back ahead at the start of the fourth, but Reyer responded with defensive stops, while long jumpers from Bramos and Brooks made it 60-67. Brussino snapped a 0-8 run with a layup-plus-one, but Theodore nailed a jumper and Valerio Mazzola a triple to lead 63-72 with under 4 minutes to go. Brussino kept Gran Canaria in it with a pair of driving layups that cut the deficit to 68-72. Brooks gave Reyer a 6-point lead by hitting a dagger with one foot on the three-point line and Theodore added a stop-and-go drive with 30 seconds left to seal the outcome.








































































































