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This Wednesday the last matches of the first phase of the Basketball Champions League 2020-21, encounters that have revealed the identity of the last team which was pending to ensure their classification for the second level. The square was played within Group F on RetaBet Bilbao Basket Spanish and the Pinar Karsiyaka of Turkey, being finally the turkish painting the one He has taken her to achieve victory in the match that faced them for 85-76.
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Their classification was sealed, as well as the distribution of the first two places in Group H between the Inherit San Pablo Burgos and the Happy House Brindisi, in this order, these are the 16 clubs that have qualified for the second phase of the Basketball Champions League 20-21.
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In alphabetical order: AEK Atenas (Greece), Brose Bamberg (Germany), Casademont Zaragoza (Spain), Dynamo Sassari (Italy), ERA Nymburk (Czech Republic), Hapoel Unet-Credit Holon (Israel), Happy House Brindisi (Italy), Inherit San Pablo Burgos (Spain), Iberostar Tenerife (Spain), Igokea (Bosnia Herzegovina), Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Pinar Karsiyaka (Turkey), SIG Strasbourg (France), Tofas Bursa (Turkey), Telekom (Turkey) and VEF Riga (Lithuania).
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The presence of three Turkish, three Spanish and two Italian teams, while up to eight more countries will have at least one representative in the second phase of a BCL: Greece, Germany, the Czech Republic, Israel, Bosnia Herzegovina, France, Russia and Lithuania.
How will the draw be?
The teams that have concluded first of their group in the first phase of the Basketball Champions League 20-21 will be placed in Pot 1 (Kick 1), and the teams second classified of their group will be part of Pot 2 (bomb 2). Pot 1: Iberostar Tenerife, Tofas Bursa, Hapoel Holon, Casademont Zaragoza, Starsbourg, Brose Bamberg, Turk Telekom and Hereda San Pablo Burgos. Pot 2: Dinamo Sassari, Nymburk, AEK Atenas, Nozhni Novgorod, Riga, Pinar Karsiyaka, Igokea and Happy Casa Brindisi.
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They will be distributed first the 8 clubs in Pot 2 in the four groups of the second phase (two in each group) and then they will be distributed lthe 8 teams of drum 1, also two in each group. In this way, each group of the second phase of the BCL will be made up of two first and two second classified from the first phase. Each team will play six games (three at home and three away) and the first two classified each group will play the Final to 8 Basketball Champions League 20-21 between May 5 and 9 in a venue yet to be decided.
Second phase draw restrictions
The clubs cannot be paired in the same group with the club with which they have shared the first phase (Inherit San Pablo Burgos and Happy Casa Brindisi cannot coincide again), but there is no country protection, so the Burgos team could share a group with he Iberostar Tenerife or Casademont Zaragoza.
The second phase of the Basketball Champions League will begin the week of March 2 to 3, 2021 and conclude the week of April 6 to 7, 2021, and the full game schedule will be communicated after the draw that will take place this Tuesday 2 February.
Live broadcast of the draw
He draw which will determine the groups of the second phase of the Basketball Champions League the next will take place Tuesday February 2 in the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball, in the city of Male (Suiza) at 4:00 p.m.. The ceremony will be broadcast live on championsleague.basketball, and the full schedule will be communicated after the event.
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