Team Teaching overpowered the Titans 93-65 in Frisange to book a place in the Bascol Coupe final. The visitors seized control immediately, taking the first quarter 26-13 behind early threes from Max Schmit (TEA) and steady inside scoring by Xavier Engel (TEA). By halftime the gap had ballooned to 54-26 after a second-quarter blitz that opened with back-to-back triples from Schmit and Pit Meintz (TEA) and a sustained run that the Titans could not halt even after a timeout.
Engel and Schmit set the tone all night. Engel scored 29 points with 10 made two-pointers and six free throws, repeatedly punishing the paint and the line. Schmit added 30 points, drilling six threes and converting six free throws, including a string from the line after a third-quarter technical on Stéphan Jeandey (TIT) that stalled the home side's best stretch. Daniel Weyrich (TEA) chipped in 13 and had a five-point burst early in the fourth that kept the margin out of reach; Jean De Marchi (TEA) added 8.
The Titans found rhythm after the break, taking the third quarter 20-16 on the back of Corentin Guissard's surge he piled up 21 points total and strung together multiple baskets in a personal run helped by Michael Zianveni (TIT, 9) and Jeandey (10). But the damage was done. Team Teaching's lead peaked at +39 (89-50) in the fourth, with Schmit burying two more threes to extinguish any hope of a comeback.
Key numbers underline the difference: Team Teaching hit 8 triples to the Titans' 2 and made 13 free throws to the Titans' 5. Both sides were productive inside (TEA 28 two-pointers, TIT 27), but the visitors' superiority from deep and at the stripe defined the outcome. Early foul trouble for Guissard (three in the first quarter) and 4 fouls on Miguel Gonzalez Vargas (TIT) didn't help the hosts.
Coached by Fabian Moreau, the Titans never found a counter to Engel who also directed operations from the sideline for Team Teaching and Schmit's perimeter barrage. Team Teaching advance to the final.
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