The round of 16 started with a single game on Wednesday. The top seed made their knockout round debut as Reyer went to Saint-Amand and breezed past 17 seed Hainaut 87-58 behind Marie Ruzickova to make their path easier next week when the action moves to Venezia. The rest of the games were played on Thursday, starting all the way in Krasnoyarsk, where Courtney Paris and 4 seed Hatay will bring home a narrow lead after a 70-65 win over 20 seed Enisey. Ieva Krastina and Gunta Basko-Melnbarde had good games for TTT Riga, but the 6 seed will have an uphill battle at home after Krystal Thomas led 11 seed Mersin to an 88-70 win. A close game in Greece saw 10 seed Olympiacos come back to win, but a 65-60 margin means that Nicole Romeo and 7 seed Girona will have a good shot at redeeming themselves at home. Kahleah Copper led 15 seed Gdynia again, but Astou Ndour and 2 seed Virtus Eirene will have a 76-72 lead when the series moves to Ragusa. Clarissa Dos Santos and the 3 seed will bring a solid lead home to Charleville-Mezieres after an 83-62 win over the 14 seed in Bydgoszcz as they brought back a key player as well. One Polish team did win as Sonia Ursu lifted 5 seed Sleza past 12 seed Szekszard 77-72 to bring a small lead home to Wroclaw. One other higher seed faces a tough test at home as 8 seed Good Angels Kosice lost to 9 seed Landes 69-55.
January 3, 2018
Saint-Amand vs. Reyer Venezia 58-87 SAHB Sulciute 13 Bruner 12/8r VEN Ruzickova 20 Walker 14/6r De Pretto 13 Williams 7
January 4, 2018
Enisey vs. Hatay 65-70 ENI Monroe 16/6r McCallum 11 Dorovskikh 10 HATA Paris 20/17r Ben Abdelkader 15 Snytsina 13 Turner 11/9r Mitchell 5
Mersin vs. TTT Riga 88-70 MERS Thomas 24/14r Yalcin 18/8a Cado 15 Gajic 11/17r Hartley 10/6r TTTR Krastina 26 Basko-Melnbarde 21/6r/6a Stewart 8 Kreslina 6 Priede 5 Malott 2 Eglite 0
Olympiacos vs. Spar Citylift Girona 65-60 OLY Macaulay 15/6r Kaltsidou 14 Maltsi 13 Anderson 7 Mazic 6 GIRO Romeo 22 Mendy 12/8r Gomes Colhado 10/7r Evans 6 Martinez 2 Conde 0
Gdynia vs. Virtus Eirene 72-76 GDYN Copper 24/6r Morawiec 12 Aleksandravicius 8/6r Jankoska 8 Vitola 6/8r RAGU Ndour 29/10r Kuster 18/7r Hamby 9/9r
Artego Bydgoszcz vs. Carolo 62-83 ARTG Miedzik 14 Stankovic 13 O’Neill 13 Stallworth 10/6r McBride 4/6a/6s CARO Dos Santos 21/18r Mosqueda-Lewis 14 Berezhynska 13/6r Bouderra 12/7a Filip 10 Loyd 5
KSC Szekszard vs. Sleza Wroclaw 72-77 KSC Krnjic 18 Oblak 16/6a Erkic 12/6r Balint 12 McCall 0 SLEZ Ursu 22 Zoll-Norman 18 Kastanek 6
Landes vs. Good Angels Kosice 69-55 BLAN Bravard 17 Ayim 14/10r Casas 10 Dumerc 9/7a GAKE Morris 9/7r Sverrisdottir 9 Peters 9 Zirkova 7