4 matches will be played in the regular season of the Basketball Super League on Saturday, January 18.

10 teams will compete in the Super League in the 2025/26 season.

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Basketball. Ukrainian Super League

January 18

Lutsk. Youth and Youth Sports School

• 13:00. Prykarpattya-Hoverla – Krivbass (YouTube FBU)
• 16:00. Old Lutsk – Niko-Basket (YouTube FBU)

Kyiv. PS Veneto

• 14:00. Rivne – Dnepr (Suspilne Sport, YouTube FBU)
• 17:00. Kyiv-Basket – Zaporozhye (Kyivstar TB)

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13:00. Prykarpattya-Hoverla – Krivbas

14:00. Rivne–Dnieper

16:00. Old Lutsk – Niko-Basket

17:00. Kyiv-Basket – Zaporozhye

Head coach of Kyiv-Basket Dmitry Zabirchenko He evaluated the victory against Dnepr in the Super League regular season match (75:69).

“Positive impressions. Of course, this is the regular season, but after the defeat against the Kharkov Falcons, I still wanted to recover in front of our fans. I don’t think we deserved such a big defeat in Dnipro when we played with the Falcons. I still wanted the players to feel responsible for the game they played and apologize to the fans for the defeat they lost to the Falcons. They really did their best today. They responded to the situation we had. As a coach, this made me very happy, because after a defeat they can focus on winning as much as possible and for the sake of victory They can do anything. Young players are of course unstable and as you can see we can lose against Kharkiv Falcons in the quarter -21 and win against Dnepr.

Everyone understands that Dnepr is the leader of the championship. Winning against the championship leader is always prestigious and enjoyable. We are really happy today in terms of basketball. We didn’t play much without Karpyuk. Maxim Sandul was almost alone at number five. Yaroslav has been going to the 3×3 national team for two years; Artem Smitiukh plays in the fifth row in all training sessions. His great player skills really helped us a lot today. I respect him very much, thank you for the game. He really struggled against Zagreb, but he did not lose the fight. Yes, there were fouls and stuff, but he did not lose the fight. This is the most important thing. He has a bright head. He understands his advantages when he plays at number five, and that’s the most important thing.

It’s always harder to prepare for the second match. You play by your own rules from scratch. It will be difficult for us against Zaporozhye, because today there is a victory over the Dnieper. You may not be able to recover emotionally because of your game against Zaporozhye. I would like to thank our audience and people who came to support us today in such cold weather and gave crazy support, thanks to which we broke Dnepr somewhere in the fourth quarter. We are athletes and we all want to win, we must be passionate. “I really want the players to experience the same excitement tomorrow as they do today.”

4 matches were played in the Super League on Saturday, January 17.

The matchday program was opened by Prykarpattya-Hoverla and Niko-Basket in Lutsk.

The home team had a better start to the match: They took the lead with a score of 5:2 after the first attacks and soon increased their advantage to 7 points. However, the guests accepted the challenge with honor and made an advance of 11:2 in the middle of 10 minutes. “Prykarpattya-Hoverla” finally came close to its opponent, thanks to the effective moves of Startsev, who made a three-point shot and converted a pass under the basket, but lost at 23:28 of the first quarter.

However, in the second period of the game, the Ivano-Frankivsk team began to actively win back from the first minutes. Startsev converted a floater, and then the home team completed two successive attacks with long-range strikes: it was Chugunov and Kuznetsov who put Prykarpattya-Hoverla ahead by hitting the opponent’s basket from long range. However, this lead did not last long: in the middle of the quarter, Niko-Basket regained the lead with Safonov’s three-pointer at 35:35. But still, approaching the big break, Franko made an attack at 11:3, which allowed them to finish the first half with a positive result for themselves – 53:49 in the end.

In the third quarter, the performance of the teams dropped slightly: there were misses and long-distance hits decreased. In this period of the match, “Hoverla” was ahead by a maximum of five points, and as the match approached the last stoppage, Victor Bugra’s team managed to increase the advantage to six points with a three-point basket by Leiterrance Reed and increased this success even more. But Niko-Basket showed its character once again: accurate two-pointers by Grischuk and Safonov allowed us to maintain our measured optimism for the last quarter: 75:70 in favor of Prykarpattya-Hoverla.

Ivano-Frankivsk basketball players started the decisive quarter with a long-range shot by Startsev. “Niko-Basket” did not plan to lose, so there were a lot of fights further up the field and, as a result, fouls. Nevertheless, the Ivano-Frankivsk team managed to escape and did not allow Niko-Basket to approach the critical distance. True, the guests no longer found the strength for another breakthrough.

The most productive player of the match was Ilya Kabatsyura, who scored 28 points.

“Rivne” beat “Zaporozhye” and overtook it in the rankings.

The teams were side by side on the score until the last quarter – Rivne was almost always ahead, but Zaporozhye took the lead by 1-2 points several times in the first half and equalized in the third quarter.

The key was the breakthrough of “Rivne” at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter, after which the advantage of Denis Spiridonov’s attacks reached 19 points. The Rovenians then took the match to victory.

“Rivne” won the rebound 52-45 and made better three-point shots (14/29 – 48%), while “Zaporozhye” made only 8 out of 37 shots (21%), which were the key indicators.

For Rivne, Vitaly Bykov was the best with 32 points (he made 8 of 11 three-pointers), while Jaylen Dupree scored 9 points with 13 rebounds. Rod Brown, who returned to the team, scored 3 points and collected 8 rebounds in his first game of the season. While Anton Butz had a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds for Zaporozhye, Braxton Lovings was the most productive name with 16 points.

In a competitive match “Old Lutsk” lost to “Kryvbas”.

The first half of the match was equal and spectacular – “Old Lutsk” was ahead in the first quarter, “Krivbass” was ahead in the second quarter, and the teams entered the long break with a score of 49:47 in favor of the visiting team. The third quarter was unsuccessful for “Old Lutsk”, who scored 15 points but conceded 27 points, and “Krivbass” had a +14 advantage before the last quarter. Nevertheless, “Old Lutsk” managed to seize the initiative, respond to the intrigue and equalize the score. Lutsk team had many opportunities to take the lead in the last minutes, but they could not take advantage of them. Krivbass carried out their attacks and won the match.

In this match, Krivbass’s triple-double was recorded by Alexander Peacock, who played without a substitution, and made 14 points (4/8 two-pointers, 1/2 three-pointers, 3/4 free throws), 10 rebounds, 10 assists. Kryvbas’ top scorer was Martin Hill with 24 points.

While Vladislav Nikolaychuk had a double-double with 18 points and 12 rebounds for Lutsk, foreign players also showed high performance. Roy scored 19 points, Moore 18 points and Anderson 17 points.

The main match of the Super League match round was the meeting of last year’s finalists: in the capital of Ukraine, the local “Kiev-Basket” hosted the current champion Dnepr basketball club.

The beginning of the reporting match heralded a generally equal fight: none of the opponents were ahead on the score, but Denis Klevzunnik stood out for Kiev-Basket, who broke the 10-point mark in the first ten minutes. “Dnepr” took a significant step towards victory in the first quarter with a long shot by Igor Dubonenko (23:18), but the Kiev team managed to take back three points in the last seconds: Artem Smityukh made a good attempt – 21:23 at the end of the first quarter.

Although Klevzunnik’s useful performance for the home team continued in the second 10 minutes, the guest team preferred long-range shots: Vladimir Konev and Roman Bondarchuk cheered the crowd with their shots. Sergei Zagreb, who scored a magnificent dunk in the middle of the quarter, played a major role in Dnepr’s attacks in the last minutes before the big break. When the score reached 37:29 with Koldomasov’s magnificent pass, it was seen that Dnepr could not give up its advantage in this quarter either. However, Kiev-Basket made a comeback: First Romanitsa gave the team two points, then converted a shot from long range. The first half ended with two consecutive effective attacks by Denis Klevzunnik – 42:39.

There was a lot of fighting on the field in the third quarter; The leader of the conflict changed four times. However, Kiev-Basket maintained its minimal advantage before the last ten minutes: 56:55. The start of the last quarter was better for the home team: two consecutive three-pointers by Romanitsa and Bublik gave Kiev-Basket a significant psychological advantage. The break did not help Dnepr either, as the Kievans were ahead by as much as 10 points in the quarter. Dnepr tried to catch up with its opponent and in the end almost saved the game, when with 12 seconds left, 73:67, Zakurdaev was fouled while trying to make a three-point shot. However, Maxim missed all three free throws. While “Kiev-Basket” brought the matter to victory with a score of 75:69, “Dnepr” suffered its second defeat in the current championship.

The most productive player of the match was Denis Klevzunik, who had a double-double with 28 points and 10 rebounds.

Super League. Regular season, January 17

Prykarpattya-Hoverla – Niko-Basket 98:88 (23:28, 30:21, 22:21, 23:18)

hoverla: Kuznetsov 5 + 4 rebounds, Startsev 25 + 6 assists, Reed 19 + 3 rebounds + 3 assists, Kabatsyura 28 + 6 assists, Morozov 16 + 5 rebounds – start; Markov 0, Chugunov 3, Dmitrenko 2, Drozdov 0.

Niko-Basket: Lukyan 8+10 rebounds, Zaitsev 4+5 rebounds, Safonov 19+4 rebounds+4 assists, Likhoy 11+4 rebounds, Garbar 10 – starts; Grischuk 16 + 6 rebounds, Sturov 0 + 3 rebounds, Volodin 20 + 7 rebounds, Kabanov 0.

Rivne – Zaporozhye 90:68 (18:13, 16:20, 30:22, 26:13)

Straight: Dupree 9 + 13 rebounds, Traylor 7, Timoshchuk 7 + 7 rebounds + 7 assists, Bykov 32, Ryaboy 2 – start; Ponosov 14, Shepelev 9, Korovyakov 4, Brown 3 + 8 rebounds, Sheptytsky 3.

Zaporozhye: Lishchina 7 + 5 rebounds, Matthews 6 + 8 rebounds, Lovings 16 + 6 assists, Butz 14 + 11 rebounds, Petrenko 12 + 5 rebounds – start; Velichko 11, Klimanov 2, Surkis 0, Rybakov 0, Terekhin 0.

Old Lutsk – Krivbass 82:86 (23:24, 24:25, 15:27, 20:10)

Old Lutsk: Roy 19, Nikolaychuk 18 + 12 rebounds, Dupin 2, Moore 18, Lesik 6 + 5 rebounds – start; Anderson 17, Gorobchenko 2, Tovkach 0, Mikhailov 0.

Krivbas: Hill 24 + 8 rebounds, Dalcourt 17 + 5 rebounds, Skira 4, Peacock 14 + 10 rebounds + 10 assists, Vodolazsky 14 + 5 rebounds – start; Trikolenko 10 + 7 rebounds, Bibikov 3, Brechka 0.

Kyiv-Basket – Dnepr 75:69 (21:23, 21:16, 14:16, 19:14)

Kyiv-Basket: Sushkin 9, Bublik 10 + 5 assists, Klevzunnik 28 + 10 rebounds, Smityukh 7 + 3 rebounds, Sandul 0 + 7 rebounds + 3 assists – start; Romanitsa 17 + 4 rebounds, Kolawole 4, Bur 0.

Dnieper: Gorobchenko 6 + 4 rebounds, Zakurdaev 7 + 6 rebounds + 5 assists, Konev 11 + 3 assists, Timofeenko 5 + 6 rebounds, Sipalo 3 – start; Zagreb 19 + 5 rebounds + 3 assists, Koldomasov 2 + 5 assists + 4 rebounds, Dubonenko 9, Bondarchuk 7, Sorochan 0.

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