Elan Chalon sur Saone rallied from a double digit deficit to beat Belgacom Spirou Charleroi 91-77 on Tuesday. Win improved Elan Chalon to 2-4 in the fifth place of Group B, while Spirou remains winless and is all but mathematically eliminated. The visitors built a 28-39 advantage, but Elan Chalon rallied after halftime. The hosts opened the third quarter with a 12-2 run, before a series of dunks from Jordan Aboudou helped them pull away early in the fourth. A.J Slaughter paced the winners with 20 points and 5 assists, Kris Joseph had 15 points plus 7 rebounds. Steed Tchicamboud had 14 points and 8 assists, while Jon Brockman collected 13 points plus 8 rebounds for Chalon which had 43-29 rebounding advantage. Demond Mallet had 17 points plus 7 rebounds for the visitors, Darryl Watkins scored 16 , and Mohamed Abukar 13 points in defeat.

Brockman scored first 9 points for Elan Chalon, but the visitors got it going first as Abukar scored 7 points, and Mallet sunk two triples for 11-18. The hosts had an answer with a triple from Slaughter and a basket-plus foul from Joseph helping cut it to 20-22 at the end of the first quarter, and Joseph’s layup at the start of the second put Chalon in front 24-22. But Watkins and Abukar combined to score 10 points during a 2-12 run that had Spirou back in front, and with a double-digit lead, 28-39. After Brockman and Slaughter cut the lead, another layup from Watkins made it 34-41 at halftime. In the third quarter, Slaughter sunk couple of triple and Clint Capela scored three baskets for 46-43. Teams continued trading leads as Mallet hit a triple on one end, while Tchicamboud sunk one on the other. After Joseph hit his first three-pointer for 58-56, Aboudou added a dunk, and Tchicamboud beat the buzzer with a jumper and 65-60 going into the fourth quarter. Aboudou made couple more slams to start the fourth quarter and 72-60. Joseph Trapani hit a triple and a pair of baskets inside for 76-69, but quick baskets from Ilian Evtimov and Joseph extended it back to 12 points, sealing the deal. In the final 90 seconds, Tchicamboud and Slaughter nailed more three-pointers to close out the game.