The last-placed team is relegated to the ABA 2 league, and the penultimate team plays a play-off with the finalist from a lower league, so the Podgorica team will try to win more than Borac in the remaining two rounds and avoid additional matches for survival.
The start was desperate – Mega scored the first eight points, and the home team scored their first field goal in the 4th minute, when Matic Rebec made a three-pointer to reduce the score to 4:8.
The first equalizer at the end of the 1st quarter was brought by Nikola Pavlićević, who then hit a three-pointer at the start of the 2nd quarter to make it 24:24. Rebec then scored from the same distance for the first lead, and Aleksa Ilić concluded the excellent quarter for the "students" with a dunk and Pavlićević with a fourth three-pointer for plus 10 at the big break.
Mijović's team had a double-digit lead several times in the third quarter, but as the match progressed, the guests played better and turned the game around at the beginning of the final quarter with a basket and extra throw by Luigi Suigo (68:67).
It was 73:69 for Mega, then SC Derbi turned the game around with a 9:1 run to 78:74, but with two minutes and 29 seconds left, Bogoljub Marković gave the guests a new lead (81:80).
It was 82:83, then Rebec made a three-pointer, and Drežnjak increased the lead to 87:83 on a counterattack and announced the victory. When Darius Johnson, after a turnover by Andrej Mušicky, increased the lead to 89:83 on the next attack, the match was decided...
