By Johnny Askounis / [email protected]
Basketball Champions League, which started in September; After the regular season, the new format continued at full speed with the Play-In tour, followed by the Round of 16 stage. Now, it’s the quarter-finals where 8 teams that will participate in the Final Four to be held in Bilbao on 6-8 May will fight. First matches are spread over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Our representative TOFAŞ will fight against Lenovo Tenerife, one of the important teams of the Champions League, without the home advantage.
Romanian champion U-BT Cluj Napoca qualified, finished Group B as the leader in the regular season and jumped directly to the Play-In round, and gained the home advantage by completing Group K as the leader in the Round of 16. Their opponents in the quarter-finals come from Germany. MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg will fight for the 2nd Final Four in its history.
Two Spanish teams, Baxi Manresa and Unicaja, play the lead roles in another quarter-final matchup. The Catalan team has the home advantage in the series and has been victorious in 10 of the last 13 matches played at home.
The Israeli team Hapoel Holon and the French team SIG Strasbourg stand out as the last match of the quarter-finals.
Basketball Champions League Quarterfinals Debut Schedule:
Tuesday
U-BT Cluj Napoca – MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (19.00)
Baxi Manresa – Unicaja (21:30)
Wednesday
Hapoel U-NET Holon – SIG Strasbourg (19.00)
Lenovo Tenerife – TOFAŞ (21.30)
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