London Lions have been crushed 75-68 by Besiktas within the first leg of their EuroCup Girls last in Istanbul.
Holly Winterburn scored a game-high 23 factors for the Lions however the guests trailed all through the competition.
London Lions turned the primary British basketball workforce to achieve a European last after they defeated Umana Reyer Venice in March.
They may search to overturn their seven-point deficit within the second leg at London’s Copper Field Enviornment on 10 April.
Dana Evans led three-time Turkish league champions Besiktas’ cost with 20 factors and Jovana Nogic added 18 for Aziz Akkaya’s hosts.
Karlie Samuelson (16) and Katsiaryna Snytsina (10) additionally recorded double figures for the Lions, who discovered themselves 18 factors behind within the third interval earlier than 12 unanswered factors saved their title hopes alive.
However Styliani Kaltsidou’s history-making workforce, who’re additionally chasing a 3rd straight home title within the Girls’s British Basketball League, should hope they’ll mount a comeback in entrance of a house crowd in Stratford subsequent Wednesday (19:00 BST).
The workforce with the upper combination rating throughout the 2 legs will raise the trophy.