2013-14Last 32Round 6
February 19, 2014 CET: 19:30
Local time: 19:30 RATIOPHARM ARENA
Cantu downs Ulm, both wait to learn their faith

FoxTown Cantu hit 14 triples, leading from start to finish and downing Ratiopharm Ulm 77-85 on Wednesday, as this outcome keeps alive both teams’ hope to advance to the eighthfinals. Both Cantu and Ulm finished the Last 32 Group I with 3-3 record, but Ulm holds a tie-break advantage due to 97-106 win at Cantu in Round 2. However, faith of both clubs depends on the outcome of the last match in the group JSF Nanterre vs. Pinar Karsiyaka. A win from Nanterre will send Ulm through, and if Karsiyaka wins on the road, than it is Cantu that makes it to the eighthfinals. Cantu needed to win by 9 to claim the place in the next round, and it held a 16-point margin twice in the first half. After 33-44 at halftime, Maarten Leunen and Pietro Aradori hit downtown daggers, keeping the visitors’ advantage safe throughout the second half. Cantu had an 11-point lead and possession in the final minute, but Cameron Long made a basket-plus-foul and Matt Howard blocked the last second attempt from Leunen to keep Ulm’s deficit below 9 points. Leunen finished with 20 points on 6 of 9 from downtown. Joe Ragland had 15 points and 10 assists, Aradori netted 14, and Michael Jenkins 12 points in victory. Edgar Sosa paced Ulm with 22 points. Daniel Theis amassed 15 points plus 12 rebounds, Matt Howard had 14 points and 8 rebounds, while Long finished with 12 for Ulm.

Cantu pulled away right away as Jenkins opened the game with back-to-back triples, and scored 10 points in less than 2 minutes. Leunen added his first triple and Aradori a layup-plus-foul for 3-16. Long nailed one from long range for Ulm, but Stefano Gentile and Ragland extended it to 9-25. A pair of baskets from Sosa at the very end of the first, and a triple to start the second quarter cut it to 16-25. But Jenkins, Gentile and Leunen helped Cantu keep the double-digit margin, before triples from Leunen and Aradori extended it to 23-39. The hosts closed in a bit before halftime through Theis, Long and finally Sosa who nailed a triple to end the second quarter for 33-44.

Ragland hit a triple at the start of the third, but Per Guenther and Sosa hit from long range for the hosts, and Howard from close range helped cut it to 46-49. But Leunen and Gentile replied with back-to-back triples, and Leunen added another one for 49-60 at the end of the third. In the fourth, Keaton Nankivil and Sosa nailed more triples for Ulm, but Adrian Uter had a pair of layups keeping the visitor up by a magic 9 points, 55-64. With high drama picking up, Howard and Sosa scored inside for the hosts, but Aradori nailed a pair of triples on consecutive trips down the floor for 61-70. Theis finished four straight possessions with a dunk, but Ragland hit a pair of layups and a triple in between, 69-77. With each basket carrying weight, Marco Cusin made both free throws before Leunen nailed his fifth three-pointer for 70-82 with 90 seconds to go. Long sank 4 of 4 from the foul line on the other end, but Leunen answered with his sixth triple for 74-85. On the next trip down the floor, Leunen missed from downtown, and Long used it to raced down the floor for a layup-plus-foul, 77-85. Cantu had 12 seconds to score and seal its place in the eighthfinals, but Howard blocked Leunen’s attempt, leaving both teams hopeful to go through.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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Referees: LOVSIN, ANDREJ; HERCEG, SINISA; RUTESIC, ZDRAVKO
Attendance: 5500 (Tentative)
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Ratiopharm Ulm
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
6 GUENTHER, PER 24:02 3 0/3 1/3     1 1 2         3 2  
9 JOENKE, TILL 4:54   0/1             1       1   -1
10 THEIS, DANIEL 25:24 15 6/9 0/1 3/5 2 10 12 1   2     3 3 20
12 SOSA, EDGAR 29:30 22 3/8 4/6 4/4 1 1 2 5         1 3 24
13 MAIER, JONATHAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
16 HESS, ADAM 4:55     0/1             1     2 1 -3
20 LONG, CAMERON 31:46 12 2/6 1/3 5/6 2 2 4 3   2     3 6 13
21 CLYBURN, WILL 24:53 2 1/9 0/3   5 6 11 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2
24 HOWARD, MATT 24:37 14 5/10 0/1 4/6 7 1 8 3 2 2 2     5 24
34 HUMMER, IAN 3:03           2 2               2
44 PLAISTED, TRENT 16:34 6 1/5   4/7 3 2 5 1   3 1 3 1 5 4
52 NANKIVIL, KEATON 10:22 3 0/1 1/1     1 1               3
Team           1   1           1    
Totals 200:00 77 18/52 7/19 20/28 21 26 47 16 5 12 4 4 17 26 88
        34.6% 36.8% 71.4%
Head coach: LEIBENATH, THORSTEN
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
FoxTown Cantu
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
5 ABASS, AWUDU DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 JONES, MARCEL 18:16 2 1/2 0/3   1 3 4 1   1   1 1    
8 UTER, ADRIAN 21:43 10 5/7     1 4 5 1     3   5 1 13
9 RULLO, ROBERTO 13:56   0/1 0/2     1 1 1 1 1   1     -2
10 LEUNEN, MAARTEN 27:04 20 1/2 6/9     3 3     1   1 3   14
11 JENKINS, MICHAEL 22:26 12 3/7 2/3   1 3 4 1   2     4   6
19 MARCONATO, DENIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 RAGLAND, JOE 25:46 15 3/5 2/6 3/3   1 1 10 2 3     4 3 18
21 ARADORI, PIETRO 29:35 14 2/6 3/4 1/1 1 3 4 3   1   1 2 7 19
22 CUSIN, MARCO 18:14 5 1/3   3/4 3 6 9 2   1 1   5 3 11
30 GENTILE, STEFANO 23:00 7 2/2 1/3 0/1   2 2 1 1 3     2 2 5
Team             2 2     1         1
Totals 200:00 85 18/35 14/30 7/9 7 28 35 20 4 14 4 4 26 16 85
        51.4% 46.7% 77.8%
Head coach: SACRIPANTI, PINO

Head Coaches

LEIBENATH, THORSTEN
Ratiopharm Ulm
"In the first quarter, we were getting good shots, but they weren’t falling. We also had to adjust to how tough they were playing. I think for the most part we played incredibly on the defensive end. Cantu was the better team tonight, but I think we fought tremendously. If you play as hard as Cantu did, it’s normal that your opponent is getting a lot of free throws. Overall, we won two quarters tonight, and obviously that’s a loss we can live with."
SACRIPANTI, PINO
FoxTown Cantu
"I think we played a great game. We played with high energy right from the beginning and worked our way to a lot of easy shots. Our defense was very good, especially on their pick-and-roll game. The big difference tonight was the number of free throw attempts; Ulm had 28 of them, while we could only manage to get nine. Also in the last three minutes we were without our starting center Cusin after fouling out, so we had to play with two power forwards, which was a disadvantage. At the end we weren’t lucky tonight."

Players

THEIS, DANIEL
Ratiopharm Ulm
"That was one of the losses that is good for us. We were surprised by Cantu’s aggressive way of playing basketball in the first quarter. But after that we adapted better. For me, it doesn’t matter if I score 2 or 20 points as long as the team wins or loses like that. I’m happy about our advancing to the next round and to play against Jerusalem. "
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