By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
The Round of 16 of Basketball Champions League is ready to tip after the playoffs draw that took place at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball on Tuesday morning.
As championsleague.basketball informs: For the purposes of the Play-Offs Draw, the 16 qualified clubs have been ranked according to their final position within their respective Regular Season group and their place in the Draw will be based on this ranking. The teams having finished 1st of their Regular Season group are placed in Pot 1, the teams having finished 2nd of their Regular Season group are be placed in Pot 2, etc. Clubs cannot be drawn against clubs from the same Group of the Regular Season. There is no country protection.
Eurelijus Zukauskas and Huseyin Besok took the stage to help with the draw procedures and the results were the following:
Hapoel Jerusalem vs. Peristeri Winmasters
Casademont Zaragoza vs. Lietkabelis
Era Nymburk vs. Teksut Bandirma
Turk Telekom vs. Besiktas
Iberostar Tenerife vs. Filou Oostende
Dinamo Sassari vs. San Pablo Burgos
JDA Dijon vs. Nizhny Novgorod
AEK Athens vs. Telekom Baskets Bonn
Draw for the Quarter-Finals
The 8 qualified teams will play best-of-3 series and the 4 winners will advance to the Final Four. The Quarter-Finals will start on 24 March 2020 and conclude (at the latest) on 8 April 2020.
The pairings 1-4 (Pot 1 vs Pot 4) are seeded and will play the first and potential third legs of the Quarter-Finals at home. The pairings 5-8 (Pot 2 vs Pot 3) are unseeded and will play the second leg of the Quarter-Finals at home.
The Quarter-Final pairings are as follows (the pairing listed second plays the second leg at home):
Winner of Casademont Zaragoza/Lietkabelis v Winner of Iberostar Tenerife/Filou Oostende
Winner of ERA Nymburk/Teksüt Bandirma v Winner of AEK/Telekom Baskets Bonn
Winner of Türk Telekom/Besiktas Sompo Sigorta v Winner of JDA Dijon/Nizhny Novgorod
Winner of Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem/Peristeri winmasters v Winner of Dinamo Sassari/San Pablo Burgos
The four teams to advance from the Quarter-Finals will meet in the Final Four on 1-3 May 2020. The location will be announced after completion of the Quarter-Finals, early April. An additional draw will determine the Semi-Finals and will take place in the Final Four host city the week following the announcement.
Watch the entire draw below: