Cairns Taipans vs NZ Breakers, 2025–26 Round 17
2025–26 · Round 17 · Sat 17 January 2026
RAC Arena
Recap
Breakers beat Taipans by 18
NZ Breakers beat Cairns Taipans 104–86 at RAC Arena in Round 17 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Sat 17 January 2026.
Sam Mennenga led all scorers with 28 points for the Breakers on 13-of-22 shooting; Mojave King had 19 for the Taipans.
Taipans made 16 threes to 6, and Taipans turned it over 14 times to 4.
Breakers led by as many as 21.
Leaders
Points
- MennengaNZL28
- BrockingtonNZL24
- SchofieldCNS19
Rebounds
Assists
- Jackson-CartwrightNZL10
- McVeighCNS8
- AndrewsCNS5
Threes
Team stats
CNSShootingNZL
- Field goals 42/8053%
- Threes 6/1833%
- Free throws 14/1878%
48%31/64
48%16/33
73%8/11
The game
- Rebounds 36
- Assists 19
- Turnovers 4
- Steals 11
- Bench points 16
- Biggest lead 21
30
25
14
1
26
2
Box score
Cairns Taipans86
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. McVeigh | 13 | 8 | 8 | 38:33 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4-13 | 3-7 | 2-2 | -18 | |
| A. Andrews | 15 | 2 | 5 | 34:35 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5-12 | 3-7 | 2-4 | -15 | |
| M. King | 19 | 5 | 4 | 30:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7-11 | 5-7 | 0-0 | -18 | |
| K. Galloway | 5 | 5 | 1 | 26:32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2-7 | 1-4 | 0-0 | -14 | |
| M. Lee | 8 | 4 | 2 | 25:53 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -5 | |
| A. Schofield | 19 | 4 | 1 | 21:53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7-9 | 4-5 | 1-1 | -16 | |
| K. Stattmann | 5 | 2 | 3 | 19:23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1-5 | 0-3 | 3-4 | 0 | |
| L. Barker | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7:11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -5 | |
| Team | 86 | 30 | 25 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 31-64 | 16-33 | 8-11 | |||
| Shooting | 48.4% | 48.5% | 72.7% |
NZ Breakers104
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. Brockington | 24 | 3 | 1 | 32:59 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9-14 | 2-2 | 4-4 | +19 | |
| P. Jackson-Cartwright | 17 | 0 | 10 | 31:24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7-14 | 1-4 | 2-2 | +14 | |
| S. Mennenga | 28 | 5 | 1 | 27:27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13-22 | 0-1 | 2-4 | +15 | |
| K. Lopez | 16 | 11 | 2 | 27:02 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6-13 | 1-2 | 3-4 | +18 | |
| R. Baker II | 3 | 5 | 0 | 13:44 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 1-2 | +9 | |
| R. Te Rangi | 8 | 1 | 1 | 17:30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | +12 | |
| C. Davison | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16:29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -2 | |
| T. Webster | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14:41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| R. Loe | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8:47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2-2 | +4 | |
| M. Darling | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8:35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | |
| S. Bairstow | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1:27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Team | 104 | 36 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 42-80 | 6-18 | 14-18 | |||
| Shooting | 52.5% | 33.3% | 77.8% |
Tap a column heading to sort. RTG is the FanCrew rating.
How the FanCrew rating works
FanCrew rating: the whole box-score line (scoring and shooting, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers and fouls) plus the margin while on court, on a 0–10 scale against every NBL game since 2005–06. 6.5 is a typical game, 8.5 and up a standout. Players need five minutes to be rated.