What I normally do is open a new window and make sure I'm logged in before I post. Easy to forget though.
So last night, Los Mikitos, despite playing run and gun vs Arab City's 3-2 zone, ran out comfortable winners, 129-67, Lee Chambers top scoring for the winners with 26.
Tide of Fire were untroubled by this season's giant killers Arsenal 98, winning 85-60, with Folomojevas starring with 22 pts and 8 assists.
Gauson had the biggest win of the night, beating BC Angliokai 127-56. Brazilian Center, Irineu Montanha grabbed 22 rebounds, blocked 3 shots and scored 16 pts in the win.
Doncaster Hawks had a comfortable win over D3 Marikina Floods. In a 111-54 win, Hawks' PG Rajmund Weber scored 27 pts, had 4 assists and also 2 steals to help his team.
The fifth EBBL team to dispatch lower league opposition was the Phoenix Warriors, who, thanks to a terrific all round performance in which all players made their mark, beat Ipswich Winterwolves 98-48. It would detract from the team performance to pick out a single star on the night.
In the only all-EBBL tie, the big 8's M Dogs knocked out the great 8's new jersey2 94-81. M Dogs led 31-16 after one quarter and 60-38 by the end of a one sided first half. To their credit new jersey2 fought back in the second half, outscoring M Dogs by 8 in the final quarter but the lead had just grown too big to claw back. Labaye and Gvozdenovic between then scored 49 of M Dogs' 94 pts.
Only one game didn't feature an EBBL team, D2 Halucagenic Dayglo at D3 ribs. Both teams employed a 2-3 zone against outside offences and inevitably that meant a high scoring game. ribs managed to pull off one of the two upsets on the night, thanks to four players scoring more than 20 pts, Gonzalez Almunia top scoring with 37 in a game that was tied at half time, but ended 125-105 in favour of ribs.
Last, but by no means least, the performance of the night was from 3rd division BC Norwich, who, with the help of a 3-2 zone which forced Sabre of Valiente to miss 26 of 29 3pt shots, put their opponents to the sword, winning 89-79 in a hard fought game. Alex Mouton top scored for Norwich with 42 pts.
Normally I'd follow this with a look at the next round's draw but I did that already so instead I'll just finish by wishing all eight teams left the best of luck with their games tomorrow night.