–
Today, one game with the participation of two home teams will take place in the regular championship of the Pafbet Latvian-Estonian Basketball League (LIBL).
At 5 pm, basketball players from the University of Latvia (UL) will host Ventspils at the Elektrum Olympic Center. The game will be available live on Best4Sport TV.
# PLAY DAY
Today we will play a game against @bkventspilsin which we will try to win the first!???? See you:
???? Today
⏰ 17:00
???? Elektrum Olympic Center
???? @Best4SportTV #LUbasketbols #LUsports #Latvian University #LU #LUbasketbolsVAR #Latvia #basketball pic.twitter.com/4v8AXfQcOS– LU Basketball (@LUbasketbols) November 7, 2020
“Ventspils” with five victories in six games in the tournament table takes the second place after the “VEF Rīga” team, while LU has lost in all six games and is the last among 13 units.
However, in the first round game in Ventspils less than two minutes before the end, the opponents were divided by only one point and “Ventspils” won only with a six-point advantage (91:85).
Māris Gulbis, the most productive player of the October fight (29.4 points on average and 6.4 rebounds) could not help Ventspils in the previous game with Liepāja, however, the leaders were productively replaced by Artūrs Ausējs, Cameron Randls (both play 18.2 points on average), Kriss Coffee (8.3 + 9.3) as well as 19-year-old Christian Schulz. The team’s “bench” has been extended by the involvement of Edgars Lasenbergs, however, the energetic match manager has yet to find his place in the team and regain the confidence he has seen in previous seasons.
For the time being, the University of Latvia manages to show good basketball only episodically. The leader of the team in several statistical columns is the captain Kārlis Žunda – on average he plays 12.2 points, 6.7 rebounds and 5.2 assists. In the first match with Ventspils, Žunda scored 18 points, Reinis Avotiņš – 16.
From October 3 to December 5, 30 games between Latvian teams are planned. Meanwhile, seven Estonian teams will also play their mini-tournaments.
In the main tournament of the third season of LIBL, 13 teams are planned to hold a two-round tournament, after which there will be playoffs – a quarter-final series and a “Final Four” tournament.
13 teams will participate in the LIBL championship in the 2020/21 season – six Latvian units – “VEF Rīga”, “Ogre”, “Ventspils”, “Valmiera Glass” / “Vidzeme University College”, “University of Latvia” and “Liepāja” also seven Estonian teams – Tallinn “Kalev” / ”Cramo”, Rapla “Avis Utilitas”, “Parnu Sadam”, “University of Tartu”, Rakvere “Tarvas”, Tallinn “Kalev” / TLU and “TalTech”.
In the first Latvian-Estonian joint league tournament in the 2018/2019 season, Ventspils won 15 teams in both the main tournament and the Final 4, but the 2019/2020 season remained unfinished, finishing first in the main tournament, which was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. occupying “VEF Rīga”, the second – “Ogre”, the third – “Kalev” / “Cramo” led by Roberts Štelmahers and the fourth – “Ventspils”.
–
