By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
The eight remaining contenders for the Basketball Champions League championship have been drawn into four Quarterfinals pairings. Respective schedules of each best-of-three series subsequently announced presented the rest of the road to the Final Four.
Round of 16 group winners, including reigning champion Lenovo Tenerife, earned the home-court advantage, thus will tip off the best-of-three series in familiar surroundings. Game 2 will switch all teams to opposite venues. Potentially splitting Game 1 and Game 2 would prompt a win-or-go-home Game 3 back in the home of the team seeded in the recent draw.
The Playoffs will start on 4 April and can last up to 19 April. Surviving sides reaching the Final Four will battle it out from 12 to 14 May in a city to be announced with Athens, Jerusalem, and Malaga in the running to host the season-ending tournament.
Basketball Champions League Playoffs schedule
Quarterfinals Game 1
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem – AEK (4/4, 20:00 CET)
Unicaja – UCAM Murcia (4/4, 20:30 CET)
Telekom Baskets Bonn – SIG Strasbourg (5/4, 20:00 CET)
Lenovo Tenerife – BAXI Manresa (5/4, 20:30 CET)
Quarterfinals Game 2
SIG Strasbourg – Telekom Baskets Bonn (11/4, 20:00 CET)
AEK – Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (12/4, 18:30 CET)
BAXI Manresa – Lenovo Tenerife (12/4, 20:30 CET)
UCAM Murcia – Unicaja (12/4, 20:30 CET)
Quarterfinals Game 3 (if necessary)
Telekom Baskets Bonn – SIG Strasbourg (18/4, 20:00 CET)
Unicaja – UCAM Murcia (18/4, 20:30 CET)
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem – AEK (19/4, 18:00 CET)
Lenovo Tenerife – BAXI Manresa (19/4, 20:30 CET)
Photo Credit: Basketball Champions League