By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Leading by double digits for most of the second half, AS Monaco prevailed, 117-96, over SLUC Nancy in Salle Gaston Medecin on Sunday.
Bouncing back from two losses in the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season earlier this week, Monaco enjoyed Mike James scoring 20 points behind 7/9 field goals, including four three-pointers. Stashed in Europe by the Boston Celtics, Juhann Begarin threw in a season-high 18 points.
Retaining a distance of 1.5 games for the leader of France’s Betclic Elite Regular Season, Cholet, La Roca Team improved to 11-4. Vitto Brown, Mouhammadou Jaiteh, Jordan Loyd, and Elie Okobo did not suit up for the Round 16 affair.
In Salle Gaston Neveur, Nadir Hifi put in 24 points and Paris dominated en route to a 90-73 victory versus La Rochelle. T.J. Shorts II, Kevarrius Hayes, and Daulton Hommes sat out.
Betclic Elite Round 16
SIG Strasbourg – JL Bourg 70-76
Saint-Quentin – Elan Chalon 83-87
Cholet – Limoges CSP 96-86
JDA Dijon – ESSM Le Portel 90-82
Nanterre 92 – Le Mans 67-85
AS Monaco – SLUC Nancy 117-96
La Rochelle – Paris 73-90
LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne – BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque (19:00 CET)
STANDINGS: Cholet 13-3, Paris 12-4, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 11-4, AS Monaco 11-4, JL Bourg 10-6, Le Mans 10-6…
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