Barcelona celebrated their 300th game in the Euroleague with an 89-84 victory in overtime against Anadolu Efes in Istanbul to go 8-0 in Group E.


Another career night of 25 points and 15 rebounds from Ante Tomic led Barca to the win but they had to force overtime due to a tip-in from Joey Dorsey off a purposely missed free throw from Brad Oleson. The visitors though got the upper hand in the extra period, scoring the first five points to take the lead for good as Anadolu Efes struggled to score in the opening possessions.

“We were especially excellent in the first quarter,” said Barcelona coach Xavi Pascual. “We were really close to crushing Efes. But things started to change with the start of the second quarter. But we played really smart in the last couple of minutes of regular time and we put our hearts on the court and managed to win the game.”

Juan Carlos Navarro himself had a career stat of 11 assists to go with his 17 points.

The Turks drop to 2-6 with this loss. Zoran Planinic and Kostas Vasileiadis both led Anadolu Efes with 14 points.