It can be defined as the day of truth. The fourth round of the clock phase scheduled for Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May will in fact turn on the light on all the verdicts, playoffs and playouts. Orzinuovi and Fabriano, already relegated, are preparing to greet the category with the last commitment.
APU OLD WILD WEST UDINE – TEZENIS VERONA
If we were in football, the prediction would be a triple. But, since the ics sign does not exist in basketball, it can be said to be a game open to a double verdict, so much and such is the caliber of the two teams that will animate it. Udine queen of the green, Verona second behind Scafati in the red. Both have LBA ambitions with good reason. All three, in the previous three rounds of the clock phase, have never fenced. The last precedent is in the 2021 LNP Super Cup and saw the Friulians prevail 72-62. Last championship, however, both entered in the green group, they obtained a victory on each side, Udine won 77-69 in Verona, Verona replied with an 81-66 in favor of the “Pala Carnera”. Friulian-Venetian derby to be savored.
Saturday 30 April at 8 pm at the “Pala Sport Carnera”
Referees: Marco Pierantozzi from Ascoli Piceno, Alessandro Tirozzi from Bologna and Mattia Eugenio Martellosio from Buccinasco (MI)
NOVIPIU ‘JB CASALE MONFERRATO – UNIEURO FORLI’
Scent of playoff area for both Monferrato and Romagna. The team of coach Andrea Valentini wants to repeat the internal success obtained against San Severo and redeem the stop in Ferrara, that of coach Sandro Dell’Agnello redeem the double hood with Turin and Mantua.
Saturday 30 April at 8.30 pm at the “Pala Energica Paolo Ferraris”
Referees: Calogero Cappello from Porto Empedocle (AG), Gabriele Gagno from Spresiano (TV) and Alberto Morassutti from Sassari.
GROUP MASCIO TREVIGLIO – TOP SECRET FERRARA
Another high-altitude match where the playoff atmosphere can already be fully breathed. Fourth for the Orobics in the green, fifth for the Este in the red. Last championship the two teams faced each other right in the playoff phase in the gold draw and, in the calculation of the five games, Ferrara won. Treviglio won in the first two matches for 76-72 and 88-86 but the team of Spiro Leka he did not get upset and completely overturned the situation by winning the other three for 80-70,69-54 and 66-62, then yielding to the semifinals in Naples. For Treviglio there is therefore also a thirst for revenge.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Facchetti”
Referees: Stefano Wassermann from Trieste, Nicola Beneduce from Caserta and Luca Bartolini from Fano (PU)
REALE MUTUA TORINO – TRAMEC CENTO
Both teams are now ready to immerse themselves in the playoffs, the Piedmontese sixth in the green with 32 points together with Assigeco Piacenza, the Ferrarese eighths with 30 with San Severo but with four points ahead of Latina who can no longer aspire for mathematics to the championship supplement. Reale Mutua in search of redemption after the stop with Chiusi who did not allow it to repeat the home victory against Forlì, Cento eager to redeem itself from a double stop with Treviglio and Piacenza so as not to make the only victory obtained so far, the one against, suffer from loneliness. Mantua.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Gianni Asti”
Referees: Enrico Bartoli from Trieste, Gianfranco Ciaglia from Caserta and Matteo Roiaz from Muggia (TS)
ASSIGECO PIACENZA – ALLIANZ PATIENCE SAN SEVERO
If a good championship was expected from Piacenza, San Severo is instead a pleasant surprise. The times in which the Foggia players relegated on the field in the 2020-21 season, put under by the Blue Star but then fished out and therefore remained in A2, seem light years away. Now there is a team ready to play the playoffs. It’s the charm of basketball, baby. Piacenza is back from a double acute with Latina and Cento, San Severo wants to concede the trio of victories after those with Urania in the opening round and Trapani the third.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Banca”
Referees: Gian Lorenzo Miniati from Florence, Stefano De Biase from Udine and Nicolò Bertuccioli from Pesaro (PU)
MANTOVA STAFF – WELL BUY LATINA INSURANCE
Virgiliani one step away from the playoffs, Pontinians who are excluded from it. Giorgio Valli’s team had a bad start playing against Cento but then made up for it with Forlì and Atlante Eurobasket. Latina instead wants to allow itself an encore of the pyrotechnic success obtained at the “Pala Bianchini” against Urania Milano.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Grana Padano Arena”
Referees: Matteo Lucotti from Binasco (MI), Fabio Ferretti from Nereto (TE) and Edoardo Ugolini from Forlì.
2B CONTROL TRAPANI – ATLAS EUROBASKET ROME
The playoff hopes, for the Sicilians of coach Daniele Parente after the defeat on the San Severo parquet, have been definitively extinguished. Nor will the Eurobasket Rome Atlas have access to it. But the hosts intend to say goodbye to their fans with a victory that will pulverize the double defeat against Biella and Mantua to end the season with a flourish.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Conad”
Referees: Marco Barbiero from Milan, Lorenzo Grazia from Bergamo and Vladislav Doronin from Perugia.
URANIA MILANO – LUX CHIETI BASKETBALL
The Wildcats are now safe from the playout, the same goes for the Theatines with their four points advantage over Nardò third from last. The hosts want to secure the second home victory after the one with the Stella Azzurra Roma, while Chieti, on the other hand, seeks redemption after the double misstep with Trapani and Bakery.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the Allianz Cloud Palalido
Referees: Alessandro Costa from Livorno, Christian Mottola from Taranto and Alessandro Saraceni from Zola Predosa (BO)
EDILNOL BIELLA – BLUE STAR ROME
The wool players already have salvation in their pockets, Stella Azzurra is now in the playout as happened last season when she managed to save herself by overcoming San Severo. Coach Zanchi’s team wants to close with a victory in front of their audience, the Capitoline try to place themselves in the most favorable position possible for the championship supplement. Marcius and his companions come from a success against the already relegated Orzinuovi.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Biella Forum”
Referees: Roberto Radaelli from Rho (MI), Angelo Valerio Bramante from San Martino Buon Albergo (VR) and Marco Marzulli from Pisa.
BAKERY PIACENZA – NEXT NARDO ‘
The challenge could be an appetizer of the playouts to which the two teams are already doomed. The two teams would in fact find themselves facing each other if the Blue Star were able to prevail in Biella. The roster of coach Federico Campanella, who entered the freshman season, however, took away some satisfactions such as overcoming the noble Cantù in the Brianza area. However, the double victory with Fabriano and Chieti was not enough for them to avoid the playout scenario. Same goes for Nardò who did not benefit too much from the double acute with Biella and Orzinuovi.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Franzanti”
Referees: Marco Rudellat from Nuoro, Daniele Calella from Bologna and Vincenzo Di Martino from Santa Maria la Carità (NA)
ACQUA SAN BERNARDO CANTU ‘- ORASI RAVENNA
The stop of Scafati sanctioned the second place of the Brianza who saw the stainless leaders Udine fly away. Ravenna, with the success with Treviglio, confirmed itself as the third force in the championship and is also preparing for the playoffs. The challenge is therefore certainly one of those at high altitude with the roster of coach Marco Sodini eager to repeat the home win against Chiusi.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Banco Desio”
Referees: Angelo Caforio from Brindisi, Alberto Perocco from Ponzano Veneto (TV) and Salvatore Nuara from Treviso.
GIORGIO TESI GROUP PISTOIA – HUMAN CLOSED
Tuscan derby of great charm between the holders of the LNP Super Cup and the surprising Sienese freshman. The home roster, third in the standings, now has the lead in the playoffs as well as the team of Musso and teammates who could not have asked for better since their debut in the A2 series. Saccaggi and his teammates want to shred the bad defeat on the Verona floor. Chiusi, on the other hand, wants to reserve the same treatment for his fellow countrymen given to Casale and Turin with which he prevailed.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Carrara”
Referees: Andrea Valzani from Martina Franca (TA), Daniele Valleriani from Ferentino (FR) and Umberto Tallon from Bologna.
INFODRIVE CAPO D’ORLANDO – FABRIANO RISTOPRO
One still maintains the hope of remaining in the category, the other will have to start over from the cadeteria from which she climbed last season. A match that is essentially only of interest to Capo d’Orlando who wants to leave behind the home stop against Scafati and put himself in the best possible position in view of the playout dispute. Fabriano, on the other hand, wants to conclude platonically with a victory after having taken away the inaugural round of the clock phase the satisfaction of overcoming the noble Cantù.
Sunday 1 May at 6.30 pm at the “Pala Fantozzi” in Capo d’Orlando
Referees: Michele Cosimo Pio Capurro from Reggio Calabria, Sebastiano Tarascio from Priolo Gargallo (SR) and Marco Attard from Florence.
AGRIBERTOCCHI ORZINUOVI – GIVOVA SCAFATI
The sad Orzinuovi against the smiling Scafati. The bottom of the green group now in Serie B and the bells in full launching pad for the playoffs that could be worth their arrival in the top flight. The Brescia team plans to take leave of the category that saw it reach, last season, the historic milestone of the “Final Eight” dispute in the Italian Cup (exit in the first round against Ge.Vi Napoli) with a prestigious victory, the people of Campania want to put the icing on the cake in an already secure first place in front of the crowded Verona.
Sunday 1 May at 6 pm at the “Pala Bertocchi”
Referees: Pasquale Pecorella from Trani (BT), Giulio Giovannetti from Rivoli (TO) and Massimiliano Spessot from Gradisca d’Isonzo (GO)
Green Group Ranking
Group Red Standings
Photocredits: Savino Paolella
