A stellar performance in a convincing home victory allowed Mitchell Creek of U-BT Cluj-Napoca to earn Regular Season Round 11 MVP honors with a PIR of 43.
Creek led Cluj to a 118-97 home win over Neptunas Klaiepda with 40 points, a new club record, on near-perfect shooting: 10-of-11 two-pointers, 4-of-4 three-pointers and 8-of-10 free throws. He added 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 7 fouls drawn for a career-high PIR of 43, which is also a Cluj record. Creek earned MVP of the Round honors for the first time in his BKT EuroCup career and became the second Cluj player to do so this season, after Dusan Miletic in Round 4.
Jordan Parks of Umana Reyer Venice and Aleksej Nikolic of Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana each had a PIR of 34. Parks led Reyer to a 94-85 comeback win against Bahcesehir College Istanbul with 30 points on 8-of-13 two-pointers, 2-of-2 three-pointers and 8-of-9 free throws, 8 rebounds, 1 assist and 5 fouls drawn. Nikolic did it in his team's 81-84 home loss against Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem. Nikolic had 27 points on 5-of-7 two-pointers, 3-of-9 three-pointers and 8-of-8 free throws, 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 10 fouls drawn.
Malachi Flynn of Bahcesehir, who reached a PIR of 22, and Kyle Alexander of Turk Telekom Ankara, who amassed a PIR of 32, complete the top individual performances in Round 11. Flynn posted 31 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 block and 5 fouls drawn in Bahcesehir’s victory, while Alexander finished with 21 points, 10 rebounds, 1 steal, 2 blocks and 6 fouls drawn in Turk Telekom’s 76-80 defeat to Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse.
Individual highs: Austin Wiley, Jerusalem, 6 blocks
Mitchell Creek of Cluj led all scorers in Round 11 with 40 points. He became the first player to score 40 points or more in a EuroCup game, and the first to reach the mark since Scottie Wilbekin of Darussafaka Istanbul got 41 in Game 2 of the 2018 semifinals against FC Bayern Munich. His teammate Fatts Russell is the competition's top scorer with 21.4 points per game.
Austin Wiley of Jerusalem topped all rebounders in Round 11 by pulling down 13. He is also first overall with 8.6 boards per night.
RJ Cole of Reyer dished 9 assists in Round 11, more than anyone else. Arnas Velicka of Neptunas ranks first overall with 7.2 assists per night.
Nine different players collected 3 steals apiece in this round. Dogus Ozdemiroglu of Turk Telekom is the steals leader with 2.7 per game.
Wiley had a round-high 6 blocks against Cedevita. He climbed to first place overall with 1.9 blocks per game.
Zacharie Perrin of Veolia Towers Hamburg (11 points, 12 rebounds), Amine Noua of Aris Thessaloniki Betsson (14 points, 10 rebounds), Stefan Djordjevic of Slask Wroclaw (12 points, 12 rebounds), Fardaws Aimaq of Lietkabelis Panevezys (13 points, 12 rebounds) and Kyle Alexander of Turk Telekom (21 points, 10 rebounds) each recorded a double-double in Round 11.