Basket Živinice walked into Sportska dvorana Milos Mrdic with a 4-11 record and left with the biggest kind of road statement: an 82-81 win over Leotar Trebinje on January 31, 2026 in Prvenstvo BiH’s 2025-26 season.
Leotar (8-7) controlled the first half, but Živinice’s third-quarter avalanche turned the night into a possession-by-possession finish — and the visitors executed just enough to escape with the one-point result.
How the game swung
Leotar set the tone early, winning the first quarter 23-18 and carrying that edge into halftime after taking the second 26-23. Through 20 minutes, the home side had built a 49-41 cushion — the kind of margin that typically lets a team dictate tempo and protect the paint-to-perimeter balance.
Then came the decisive stretch: Živinice torched the third quarter 29-16. In 10 minutes, the visitors flipped an eight-point halftime deficit into a six-point lead heading to the fourth, turning the game from controlled to chaotic and forcing Leotar to chase.
Closing time: defense, composure, and a one-point margin
Živinice didn’t run away from it. The fourth quarter was a grind — the visitors scored just 12 points — and Leotar had opportunities, winning the period 16-12 and trimming the gap to a single point by the final horn.
But the third-quarter work mattered. Živinice’s ability to bank a lead during its best offensive window gave it margin for error late, and the visitors’ fourth-quarter resistance — even without offensive flow — proved enough to close out the 82-81 finish.
By the numbers: quarter-by-quarter
Q1: Leotar 23, Živinice 18
Q2: Leotar 26, Živinice 23
Halftime: Leotar 49, Živinice 41
Q3: Živinice 29, Leotar 16
Q4: Leotar 16, Živinice 12
Final: Živinice 82, Leotar 81
What it means going forward
For Leotar, the loss stings because the blueprint was there for 20 minutes. With an 8-7 record and a recent form line of LLLWW, this was a chance to stabilize — instead, the third-quarter collapse reopened the same volatility that’s defined stretches of their season.
For Živinice, now coming off a WWLLL run entering the game, this is the kind of result that can reset a season’s trajectory. They proved they can win away from home, withstand a hostile environment, and survive a late-game squeeze — all built on one dominant quarter that changed the math of the night.