Men’s basketball: “Humiliation” for U BT Cluj in the EuroCup! The champions suffer a crushing defeat in the first official game of the season

Romanian champions U-BT Cluj were defeated away from home by Maxima Roma on Wednesday, 89-55 (55-30), in the first official game of the 2026-2027 season. The match counted for the first round of Group B of the BKT EuroCup.

The hosts controlled the game from the first half and went into halftime with a 25-point lead. Ryan, with 16 points, and Alibegovic and Lemar, with 14 each, were the Italian team’s leading scorers. For U-BT Cluj, Smart and Kullamae scored 12 points each, while Beslac finished the game with eight points.

The team coached by Mihai Silvășan was without Uros Plavsic and Otis Livingston II for medical reasons.

In the next round, scheduled for October 7, U-BT Cluj will play its first home game of this edition against Umana Reyer Venezia. The Romanian champions are competing in the EuroCup for the fifth consecutive season and have reached the competition’s quarterfinals in the last three editions.