South East Melbourne Phoenix vs NZ Breakers, 2025–26 Round 18
2025–26 · Round 18 · Wed 21 January 2026
State Basketball Centre
Phoenix beat Breakers 123–116
South East Melbourne Phoenix beat NZ Breakers 123–116 at State Basketball Centre in Round 18 of the 2025–26 NBL season, on Wed 21 January 2026.
Sam Mennenga led all scorers with 28 points for the Breakers on 8-of-12 shooting; Ian Clark had 24 for the Phoenix.
Phoenix made 18 threes to 6, and Phoenix had 43 bench points to 22.
Phoenix led by as many as 25.
- 23
- PTS
- 3
- REB
- 3
- AST
- +9
- +/-
8/13 FG · 4/8 3PT · 3/3 FT
Leaders
Points
- MennengaNZL28
- Jackson-CartwrightNZL26
- ClarkSEM24
Rebounds
- Brown IIISEM9
- LopezNZL8
- Jackson-CartwrightNZL6
Assists
- Jackson-CartwrightNZL9
- SobeySEM7
- FoxwellSEM4
Threes
Team stats
- Field goals 36/6655%
- Threes 6/1833%
- Free throws 38/4978%
The game
- Rebounds 31
- Assists 17
- Turnovers 11
- Steals 4
- Bench points 22
- Biggest lead 2
Box score
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. Iwundu | 23 | 3 | 3 | 31:38 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8-13 | 4-8 | 3-3 | +9 | |
| N. Sobey | 19 | 1 | 7 | 30:42 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7-16 | 3-9 | 2-2 | +8 | |
| J. Brown III | 10 | 9 | 3 | 21:59 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +7 | |
| O. Foxwell | 11 | 1 | 4 | 20:17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 1-1 | -2 | |
| J. Hunter | 17 | 4 | 1 | 18:20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6-9 | 3-5 | 2-2 | +14 | |
| A. Glover | 8 | 3 | 3 | 21:42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2-6 | 1-4 | 3-4 | -8 | |
| I. Clark | 24 | 3 | 1 | 20:08 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7-11 | 5-8 | 5-5 | +10 | |
| M. Lewis | 7 | 4 | 1 | 18:35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 1-2 | +3 | |
| D. Mitchell | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13:57 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | -6 | |
| D. Foster | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2:44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 |
| Team | 123 | 31 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 44-80 | 18-42 | 17-19 | |||
| Shooting | 55.0% | 42.9% | 89.5% |
| Player | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. Jackson-Cartwright | 26 | 6 | 9 | 35:53 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10-22 | 2-5 | 4-4 | -4 | |
| S. Mennenga | 28 | 5 | 1 | 33:23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8-12 | 0-1 | 12-14 | -4 | |
| K. Lopez | 11 | 8 | 2 | 30:42 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2-7 | 0-2 | 7-10 | -7 | |
| I. Brockington | 15 | 4 | 1 | 29:59 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4-7 | 2-3 | 5-6 | -3 | |
| R. Te Rangi | 14 | 2 | 1 | 19:23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 4-4 | -4 | |
| C. Davison | 9 | 4 | 1 | 19:08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4-7 | 0-2 | 1-3 | -8 | |
| T. Webster | 9 | 1 | 1 | 15:02 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 5-8 | -8 | |
| M. Darling | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11:11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +1 | |
| R. Loe | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5:29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | +2 | |
| Team | 116 | 31 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 17 | 36-66 | 6-18 | 38-49 | |||
| Shooting | 54.5% | 33.3% | 77.6% |
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.
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