Dijon by beating Cholet (89-81), and Strasbourg, by going to win at the red lantern Boulazac (86-79), consolidated their place on the provisional podium of the French Basketball Championship, this Friday evening during the 33rd day Elite. The JDA lost last Saturday in the final of the Coupe de France against Asvel. She was reassured with two victories in three days, Tuesday in Châlons-Reims, then against Cholet (13th) this Friday, just to keep her 2nd place in Elite, thanks to her 18th success of the season. The leader Monaco, at the same time, won the Eurocup in Kazan, a historic victory for French basketball. And the SIG played its fourth league match in eight days, after a long trip to the Dordogne, at the other end of France. Three days after their important victory on Tuesday against Lyon-Villeurbanne, it took half a match for the Alsatians to take the measure of their rivals, much better than their ranking might suggest, up to 14 points ahead. Strasbourg then tightened the game to take the advantage at the end of a third quarter round smoothly, then escape at the end of the match, their eighth in April. Still 3rd in the Elite, with 16 victories, the Alsatians can leave serene for the Final 8 of the Champions League (the 3rd European level, in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia).
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