Benetton Basket Treviso took a big step towards the Final Eight with a resounding 67-99 win over Turk Telekom in the Turkish capital on Tuesday. Benetton improved to 3-0 in the Last 16, while dropping Telekom to 1-2. The two sides meet again in their next Eurocup fixture in two weeks in Italy. The visitors led from start to finish, taking their first double-digit advantage midway through the opening period and never looking back. Gary Neal paced Benetton with 23 points and 3 steals, CJ Wallace recorded 22 points, 10 rebounds and 3 steals, Sandro Nicevic scored 15, Matteo Soragna 13 and Bobby Dixon had 11 points and 5 assists. Michael Wright paced Telekom with 15 points and Erwin Dudley added 10 points and 12 rebounds in defeat.

It was an ideal start for the visitors as Neal quickly scored the game’s opening basket and Wallace added a triple. More than two-and-a-half minutes passed before Dudley scored on the offensive glass for Telekom’s first points. Kris Lang and Dudley cut the gap to 1 before Wallace’s second three-pointer was followed by Neal’s first to make it 6-13 midway through the opening period. Andrea Renzi came off the bench to stretch Benetton’s run to 0-8 before Kennedy Winston made a pair of free throws for the hosts. Soragna struck from downtown to up the Benetton advantage to 10 points. Points from Wright and Serkan Erdogan did not change much as Dashaun Wood made it 14-24 after 10 minutes. Dudley scored to try to ignite a Telekom comeback at the start of the second period, but Benetton responded with 9 unanswered points for a 16-33 lead. Baris Ozcan’s triple and a pair of Wright baskets inside only got Telekom within 12. Bobby Dixon and Soragna put Benetton back up by 17 before Rod Blakney’s steal and layup and a Dudley basket got the hosts within 31-44 at the half.

Benetton came out strong for the second half. Soragna started with a pair of free throws and Nicevic buried a mid-range jumper as the lead reached 17 again. Blakney fueled a 6-0 spurt with 4 points and an assist, but Wallace’s three-pointer and a Nicevic three-point play made it 37-54. Wood increased the lead to 19. Wright and Winston’s points for the hosts were matched by Nicevic and Neal, whose triple ended the third period at 51-68. Dixon fired in a three to make it a 20-point game at the start of the fourth quarter. Tutku Acik did the same for Telekom, but hope was beginning to run out for the hosts. The Benetton lead would reach 28 when Domen Lorbek drilled a three-pointer and Wallace made it 30 as the visitors celebrated the win before the final buzzer.