Having already won the Turkish Cup and the EuroLeague title, Saras Jasikevicius’s group lifted the Turkish League crown
Fenerbahce secures the club’s first Triple Crown
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What a season for Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul. Expectations are always high for the Turkish giant, but this season it has done something it has never achieved before – win the Triple Crown, the first time a team has done this since Real Madrid in 2015.
Back in February, Fenerbahce defeated Besiktas Fibabanka Istanbul in the Turkish Cup final. Three months later, Saras Jasikevicius and his team brought a second EuroLeague championship banner to Ulker Sports and Event Hall by triumphing past AS Monaco in the Championship Game in Abu Dhabi. And now, a month to the day since becoming European champions, Fenerbahce has completed the treble by winning the Turkish League Finals 4-1 against Besiktas.
Game 1 of the finals – a 94-76 Fenerbahce victory – saw Khem Birch lead the charge with 15 points, followed by Wade Baldwin with 14, Metecan Birsen with 13 and Errick McCollum with 12. Fenerbahce then took a 2-0 series lead and protected its home court by winning 84-76 in Game 2, with Birch again leading the team in scoring with 18 points. Melih Mahmutoglu added 15 points, while Devon Hall and Nicolo Melli had 11 points apiece.
Besiktas hit back on its own floor in Game 3, grabbing a 98-77 win, but Fenerbahce responded in Game 4 by downing the hosts 87-91 on the back of 24 points from Baldwin, 15 from Nigel Hayes-Davis and 12 each from Birch and Marko Guduric. Fenerbahce closed out the series at Ulker Sports and Event Hall in Game 5, triumphing 84-68 with Hayes-Davis scoring 16 points, Baldwin netting 13, and Birsen, Melli and Mahmutoglu pouring in 10 points each.