As of: October 20, 2025 10:36 p.m
Basketball Bundesliga club Löwen Braunschweig clearly missed the big surprise in the round of 16 of the BBL Cup. In the guest game against champions Bayern Munich, the Lower Saxony team lost 64:99 (27:46). In the quarterfinals there will be a northern duel: Rasta Vechta welcomes Baskets Oldenburg.
Annemarie and Wayne Carpendale made sure of that. The presenter and the actor drew the quarter-finals after the game in Munich. It was the first encounter that was drawn. Vechta and Oldenburg are the only northern clubs left in the competition.
Rasta beat Chemnitz 89:86 in the round of 16, and Oldenburg beat Würzburg 61:60. In addition to the Löwen Braunschweig, the Rostock Seawolves also failed (79:80 against Jena). The Hamburg Towers were eliminated in the first round against Bamberg.
The quarterfinals will take place on November 15th and 16th. In the other games, Bamberg and Heidelberg, Trier and Munich as well as Berlin and Jena face each other.
Löwen clearly back at the break
“Nobody expects us to win, but we believe in it,” Braunschweig’s assistant coach Keith Thomas said before the game at FCB. After four defeats in the first four Bundesliga games of the new season, last Wednesday’s appearance in the Europe Cup was encouraging. On the first matchday of the group phase, the Lower Saxony team defeated the Polish club Anwil Wloclawek at home with 98:97 after overtime.
But after the first quarter in Munich, Löwen head coach Kostas Papazoglou’s team, which automatically qualified for the round of 16 as fifth in the table last season, probably suffered considerably from their belief in the big surprise. The Lions trailed the champions 14:24. And after the second quarter it was 27:46.
Coach Papazoglou is not happy with his team
Less than three minutes into the third quarter, Papazoglou took a timeout at 29:54 to make it clear to his players that the performance they had shown so far left a lot to be desired. “We don’t do the basics well,” shouted the Greek. No matter how hard his team tried afterwards, the deficit continued to grow. After the third quarter it was 45:74, and after the final siren it was a defeat by 35 points.
The most successful Lion professional was Ferdinand Zylka with 18 points. Hamburg native and ex-Towers player Justus Hollatz (21) scored best for Bayern.
