Galatasaray Medical Park remains unbeaten and tied for first place in Group E with Lokomotiv Kuban after edging BC Donetsk 69-65 at Abdi Ipecki in Istanbul. The hosts tied the score at 22-22 and after taking a slim lead early in the second quarter, never looked back. David Hawkins led the winners with 22 points – drawing 11 fouls and scoring 11 of 12 free throws, Jamont Gordon added 13 points with 8 rebounds and Erwin Dudley scored 12. Ramel Curry drained 17 points for Donetsk, Vojdan Stojanovski chipped in 12 and D'Or Fischer bagged 10.

Stojanovski opened the scoring for BC Donetsk with a mid-range jumper before David Hawkins hit a three for the hosts. Curry added a pull-up jumper and Oleksandr Lypovyy hit from downtown to extend the margin to 3-7. Boni Ndong and Kaloyan Ivanov exchanged baskets in the paint, before Milan Macvan posted a triple and another Stojanovski jumper made it 8-11. Ender Arslan found easy points in the open court, Fischer did not miss a jumper from the foul line, but Curry again pushed Donetsk to a 10-16 advantage. Dudley free throws and his dunk that followed helped Galatasaray close within 14-16 before former Galatasaray big man Darius Songaila made it 14-18 for the visitors after 10 minutes. Dudley scored four consecutive points early in the second quarter to tie the score at 18-18. The score was tied again at 20 and 22 before Hawkins from mid range completed a streak of 6 individual points for the first advantage, 24-22 of theTurkish side. Fischer tied things again at 24-24; then Engin Atsur with back-to-back three-pointers fueled Galatasaray to 30-26. A three-point-play by Dudley capped an 11-4 run. Stojanovski drew a foul and converted 2 free throws to keep Donetsk in charge, then Ivan Radenovic scored again. A 6-0 run highlighted by 4 points by Hawkins extended again the margin, but with 2 seconds left Andriy Malysh from downtown fixed the halftime score at 39-33 for the home team.

Curry and Stojanovski with consecutive three pointers cut the deficit to 41-39. Gordon completed a three-point-play for 44-39, but Curry kept the guests on track at 44-41. Dudley and Hawkins scored 3 free throws to extend the margin to 47-41; Songaila fueled Donetsk, but Gordon answered immediately with two layups in a row. Hawkins from the foul line made a double-digit difference at 53-43, but Maksym Pustozonov scored 4 points to stay within 6. Macvan hit his second three of the game to push the hosts to 56-47 as the quarter ended. A Curry jumper kept Donetsk on track; Arslan’s layup gave again a double-figure margin to Galatasaray, but Fischer and Stojanovski scored a layup and a free throw to go to 59-52. A three-pointer by Curry allowed Donetsk to get closer. Ndong and Gordon answered with layups for 65-56, then Fischer scored twice in the paint. Hawkins scored just 1 of his free throws and Donetsk called timeout with 1:24 left in the game. Radenovic and Curry scored to cut the deficit to 67-64, but Gordon went all the way for a 69-64 lead with 31 seconds left. And Ivanov posted a free throw to fix the final 69-65 for Galatasaray.