In a postponed game of Week 28, our Beşiktaş Cola Turka Men’s Basketball Team hosted Alpella at BJK Cola Arena last night and came away with an 84-72 win.

The Black and White got off to a cold start and fell behind early in the quarter. But they managed to fight their way back into the game after the 3rd- minute mark and captured their first lead when Sinan Güler converted a steal into a fast-break lay-up. Then Cevher teamed up with Nicevic to hit back-to-back jumpers, while a tightened Beşiktaş Cola Turka defense forced the visitors into 3 consecutive turnovers. The closing minutes saw Shumpert come off the bench and drill a number of long-range threes that gave his club a 23-14 cushion at the end of the opening quarter.
Both defenses struggled at the start of the second and the teams kept trading baskets until the halfway mark. But despite early lay-ups by Shumpert and Nicevic, Alpella eventually out-rebounded the Black and White on both ends of the court and began to chip away at the deficit with a string of unanswered outside shots. The visitors also stiffened their defense to prevent Beşiktaş Cola Turka from penetrating inside. Nonetheless, Nicevic stepped up in the dying minutes and helped the Black and White carry a 46-39 edge into the locker room at the break.     
Alpella stormed out of the gates in the second half, slicing the margin down to 2 with back-back jumpers. Then hot-shooting Serhat began to pour in 3-pointers from all over the court to put the visitors back on top, 53-52, with 4 minutes showing on the clock. But the Black and White turned to an aggressive defense late in the quarter and regained the lead on Nicevic’s lay-ups by. Sinan Güler and Nicevic swished their outside shots in the closing seconds and built a 7-point, 67-60, lead for Beşiktaş Cola Turka going into the final quarter of play.      
In the fourth quarter, the visiting Alpella came back to life again and trimmed the deficit to 2 points at 71-69 buy tightening screws on defense and knocking down consecutive jump shots. But our boys in Black and White refused to get caught, as they put together a late rally to pull ahead 80-72 entering the final minute en route to an 84-72 victory.