Valencia Basket used a 24-0 run spanning the first and second quarters to finish its Eurocup Regular Season in style with a dominating 93-68 victory at home over BC Azovmash Mariupol in Group D. Having already secured first place in the group, Valencia improved to 5-1 as Bojan Dubljevic collected 26 points and 8 rebounds. Valencia advances to Last 16 Group J together with Bilbao Basket, VEF Riga and CEZ Nymburk. Joffrey Lauvergne scored 19 points and Thomas Kelati added 13 points for the winners. Azovmash bowed out of the Eurocup without a victory despite 14 points from Miroslav Raduljica, 13 from Oleksiy Pecherov and 10 from Artem Slipenchuk.

Justin Doellman scored the first five points for Valencia, which pulled ahead 7-2. The game was tied six times when Azovmash made it 15-15. But Lauvergne scored eight straight points to start a 15-0 run to close the first quarter for a 30-15 Valencia lead. The hosts hit the first nine points of the second quarter for a 39-15 advantage. Slipenchuk knocked down a three-pointer to snap Mariupol’s 6:53 minute scoreless streak and the guests pulled within 41-23. Dubljecvic hit back-to-back baskets in helping Valencia push the cushion back to 48-23. Azovmash twice got the deficit to 22 points before the hosts led 57-32 at halftime.

Raduljica tried his best to keep Azovmash in the game and helped cut the gap to 59-38 and then eventually 66-47. But the mix of Lauvergne and Dubljevic was too much and Valencia was ahead 75-52 after three quarters. Kelati opened the fourth period with a triple for the hosts and Dubljevic’s three started a streak of 11 straight points for the Montenegro talent in building the lead to 89-64, when he was subbed out for a good ovation from the home fans.