Tofaş was defeated by Büyükçekmece

In the 26th week of the Turkish Insurance Basketball Super League, TOFAŞ faced Onvo Büyükçekmece at home.

The Blue Green team started the match played at Nilüfer TOFAŞ Sports Hall with Cassius Winston, Marcus Denmon, JJ O'Brien, Tolga Geçim and Austin Wiley, and scored its first basket against the opponent's 5-0 start with Austin Wiley. Bursa representative, who responded to the opponent's points with Tolga Geçim and Austin Wiley and took the lead 4-11 at the end of the 10th minute, could not prevent the opponent's points after JJ O'Brien's baskets and closed the first period behind 21-27.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Onvo Büyükçekmece increased the difference to double digits (21-32); TOFAŞ Basketball Team reduced the difference to 12.30 (6-26) at 32 with the points of Cassius Winston and Austin Wiley, and when Mustafa Kurtuldum's basket gave the opponent a 6-0 series, the difference increased to 14.20 points again at 13. : 28-41. At the end of the quarter, the home team scored with Caleb Homesley, Austin Wiley, Tolga Geçim and Ege Demir and entered the locker room trailing 40-56.

While the third period started with mutual points, Onvo Büyükçekmece caught the 22-point lead in the 22nd minute: 42-64. TOFAŞ reduced the difference to 26.40 (11-53) at 64 with baskets by JJ O'Brien and Austin Wiley after Caleb Homesley's three-pointer, and was defeated 57-73 in the match, which entered the last quarter trailing 73-94.

Austin Wiley scored 22 points for TOFAŞ against Onvo Büyükçekmece; Caleb Homesley 11 points; Tolga Geçim played with 10 points; Omar Prewitt and Zeljko Sakic were not included in the squad due to the foreign quota.

TOFAŞ Basketball Team will play its next match in the league away against Çağdaş Bodrumspor on Sunday, April 14.

The Blue Greens will duke it out with Lenovo Tenerife in the second match of the quarter-finals of the Basketball Champions League on Wednesday, April 10 at 19.00.