Between a team at the bottom of the LFB standings and another playing leading roles in the LF2, the discussions promised to be balanced.
They remained so until the last second, as it was with a basket by Antiesha Brown with 11 seconds left that Nice qualified for the quarterfinals of the Cup.
Angers still had a 10-point lead with five minutes remaining before the buzzer, but Brown (14 points) and Géraldine Robert (20 points, 9 rebounds, 5 steals) initiated a decisive 16-5 run.
