Beşiktaş Cola Turka Men’s Basketball Team hosted Latvian representative, Ventspils at its own BJK Cola Turka Arena in the 6th week of the ULEP Cup. Black and Whites grabbed a well-earned 84-77 OT victory and took an important step towards capturing the top place in their group.

Teams traded baskets in the early going with visitors holding a slight edge thanks to a more aggressive defense. Beşiktaş Cola Turka managed to tie it at 14 - 14 with Kaya Peker’s lay-ups midway through the quarter and then went on to take the lead behind jumpers from Dalmau. Kaya Peker and Shumpert helped Beşiktaş stretch their advantage to 6 points going into final minute, but Ventspils came back with consecutive baskets to cut deficit to 24-21 at the end of opening quarter. 
Black and Whites came on strong in the second and quickly opened up an 8 point gap. Not repeating previous quarter’s defensive lapses, Beşiktaş Cola Turka then increased the margin to 12 points at 35-23 on back-to-back buckets from Kaya Peker through a 13-minute span. From than minute on, teams fell into a 4 minute draught in which they scored a total of only 6 points. Nevertheless, the Black and White put together a late run by Shumpert’s lay-ups and went to the dressing room leading 41-29 at the half.
Visiting Latvian team opened the third quarter with consecutive jumpers by Helmanis and brought the deficit to 3 points at the 24th- minute mark of the game. Playing with a tightened defense, Ventspils took advantage of Beşiktaş Cola Turka’s second-half shooting woes and narrowed the gap to 1 point with Akingbala’s basket. Despite coming empty handed from their 4 consecutive scoring attempts, Black and Whites tried to hang onto their slim lead with jumpers from Shumpert. But, visitors charged back to tie the game with 3 minutes remaining in the game. Seeing its lead dwindle down to nothing, Beşiktaş Cola Turka fell behind because of Helmanis’s hot-hand in the dying minutes of the quarter. Nevertheless, a last second bucket by Kaya Peker put the host team ahead, 53-51, going into final quarter. 
Having blown a double digit lead, Black and Whites tried to take control in the early going of the fourth with Nicevic and Kaya Peker but began to falter once again midway through the quarter. After trading baskets, the Latvian Ventspils entered the final 3 minutes with a 65-63 lead thanks to jumpers from Akingbala and Baxter. Unable to get anything going offensively and hitting nothing but the iron, Beşiktaş Cola Turka finally came back to tie the score at 65-65 with a clutch shot by Shumpert. After watching Nicevic waste a golden opportunity to go ahead, the game went into overtime.
The lead exchanged hands in the first 2 minutes of overtime with neither side gaining the upper hand. But, Beşiktaş Cola Turka began to get some key baskets by Shumpert and Nicevic and grabbed 5 point lead at 72-67 with only few minutes left to play. This late surge was a much-needed fresh breath of air for the home side. After Ventspils’s top scorer Helmanis had fouled out, Kaya Peker hit back-to-back buckets to give Black and Whites a 6 point advantage for good entering the final minute. Despite a pair of costly turnovers that allowed visitors to crawl back to within 2, Beşiktaş Cola Turka successfully converted a number of late free throws and escaped with a hard-fought 84-77 win to remain undefeated in its group after 6 games.
Kaya Peker finished the game with 25 points, followed by Shumpert who chipped in 23. Nicevic (14), Dalmau (9), Apodaca (5), Erkan (4), Sinan (3) and Mehmet (1) also scored for the victors.