In the last week of the first half of the Turkish Insurance Basketball Super League, TOFAŞ faced Galatasaray Ekmas away. The Blue Greens started the 15th week match played at Sinan Erdem Sports Hall with Cassius Winston, Marcus Denmon, Tolga Geçim, Zeljko Sakic and Austin Wiley, and although Austin Wiley scored his first basket, the home team lost 8-2 with outside shots at the beginning of the match. took the lead. Responding to the opponent's points with Cassius Winston, Marcus Denmon and Zeljko Sakic, the Bursa team entered the television timeout trailing 5-10 at the 8th minute; Continuing to score with Austin Wiley, Tolga Geçim, Caleb Homesley and Cassius Winston, TOFAŞ closed the first quarter trailing 24-21 after Özgür Cengiz's basket.
TOFAŞ, which started the third quarter with Austin Wiley's basket under the basket, entered the break at the 25th minute trailing 70-42, and returned from the break with baskets by Austin Wiley, Zeljko Sakic, Marcus Denmon and Caleb Homesley, increasing the difference to 27.30 (23-74) at 51. The Blue Greens made it 74-57 at the end of the quarter with three-pointers from Özgür Cengiz and Mustafa Kurtuldum.
Continuing to reduce the difference at the beginning of the fourth period, TOFAŞ Basketball Team pulled the difference to 6.20 with 13 left before the end with Tolga Geçim's three-pointer after Austin Wiley and Marcus Denmon's points: 80-67. However, Bursa team could not continue in the remaining part and lost 95-76.
Austin Wiley scored 16 points for TOFAŞ in Galatasaray Ekmas away match; Zeljko Sakic 12 points; Marcus Denmon played with 11 points; J.J. O'Brien, Omar Prewitt and Luke Maye did not play.
TOFAŞ will play its next match in the league away against Reeder Samsunspor on Saturday, January 13 at 15.30. The Blue Greens will face off against PAOK Mateco in the second match of the Basketball Champions League play-in qualifying round on Tuesday, January 9.
