Sporting Digest: Basketball

London Towers face Darussasaka (Turkey), Split (Croatia), Aalst (Belgium), Olimpia Milan (Italy) and Plannja Basket (Sweden) in their first-round group of the Saporta Cup. Their Budweiser League rivals, the Greater London Leopards, play Reykjaneseaer, of Iceland, in the qualifying round of the Korac Cup.

The American Tom Hancock has returned for a third spell in England to be the new head coach of the Budweiser League club Milton Keynes Lions.