Bilbao Basket defeats Botevgrad and will face Legia Warsaw in the quarterfinals
Euskaraz irakurri: Bilbao Basketek Botevgrad gainditu du, eta Legia Warsaw izango du aurkari final-laurdenetan
He Legia Warsaw will be the rival of Surne Bilbao Basket in the quarterfinals of the FIBA Europe Cupwhich will be played in March, with the 6th and 13th as reference dates, the first leg on the Polish court and the return leg at the Bilbao Arena.
The Basque team has gone to this third phase of the tournament as first in its group with a record of five victories, the last one achieved this Wednesday in Miribilla against the Balkan Botevgrad Bulgarian (90-63)and a single defeat.
Legia, for its part, has been second in a group dominated by the Turkish team of the Bahcesehir College. The Polish team has secured the pass by winning this Wednesday in the last game on the Sporting de Portugal court (86-99).
Clear victory on the last day for those from Ponsarnau
He Bilbao Basket clearly surpassed its rival from the last day, despite having left doubts in the first half after which the two teams went to the locker room with a fairly close score (42-38).
After passing through the locker room, the men Jaume Ponsarnau They went ahead and the visitors couldn’t hold on even Tryggvi Hlinason (13 points and 16 rating) in the zones nor the rhythm of the ‘men in black’.
The Icelandic giant led the choral work of a team in which there was not much statistical brilliance beyond the 9 points of the youth squad Unai Railing on his happiest afternoon on the team.
Data sheet
90 – Surne Bilbao Basket (24+18+34+14): Pantzar (8), Adam Smith (2), Reyes (13), De Ridder (8) and Tsalmpouris (10) -starting five-; Kullamae (4), Rigo (11), Hornsby (8), Rabaseda (4), Hlinanson (13) and Barandalla (9).
63 – Balkan Botevgrad (23+15+13+12): Hannah (10), Sotirov (11), Pishtikov (13), Minchev (13) and Dimitrov (5) -starting five-; Grozev (7), Gerganov (2), Korestilov (2) and Gavazov.
Partials: 24-23, 42-38 (rest); 76-51 and 90-63 (final).
Referees: Ivor Matejek (Czech Republic), Jan Baloun (Czech Republic) and Edgard Ceccarelli (France). No eliminated.
Incidents: Match of the sixth, and last, day of the second phase of the FIBA Europe Cup played at the Bilbao Arena in Miribilla in front of around 3,000 spectators.
Source: Eitb
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