By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The Basketball Champions League Play-offs competitors have been confirmed, following the completion of the 14th and last Regular Season Gameday on Wednesday evening.
Twenty four (24) clubs have qualified for the next phase of the competition, with no less than twelve countries and leagues represented.
The Play-offs Qualifiers (7-8 and 21-22 February) will see teams ranked from the 9th to the 24th position face each other home & away to join the first eight clubs that qualified directly to the Round of 16 (28 February-1 March and 7-8 March).
The clubs ranked 1st to 8th are (alphabetically): AS Monaco, ASVEL, Banvit, Besiktas JK, Iberostar Tenerife, Le Mans Sarthe, Neptunas, Sidigas Avellino.
The clubs ranked 9th to 16th (seeded) are (alphabetically): AEK, CEZ Nymburk, EWE Baskets, MHP Riesen, Partizan, Pinar Karsiyaka, SIG Strasbourg, Umana Reyer Venezia.
The clubs ranked 17th to 24th (unseeded) are (alphabetically): Aris, Avtodor, Dinamo Sassari, Fraport Skyliners, Juventus, Maccabi RM, PAOK, Ventspils.
From the 40 teams initially involved in the Regular Season and the 16 that did not make the Play-offs cut, eight will continue in the FIBA Europe Cup (the worst-ranked fifth-placed team, all five sixth-placed sides and the two best-ranked seventh-placed clubs). Those teams are (alphabetically): Cibona, Kataja, Muratbey Usak, Nahariya, Oradea, Proximus Spirou, Telenet Oostende, Zielona Gora.
The draw determining the Play-offs pairings will take place in FIBA’s House of Basketball at 14:00 Friday 27 January (CET). The ceremony can be followed live on basketballCL.com from 14.00 CET.
The results of Wednesday’s games were the following:
Group A
Fraport 81-64 Ironi Nahari
Helios 57-67 CEZ Nymburk
Monaco 80-66 Aris
Bakken 68-92 Banvit BK
Group D
Scandone AV 74-64 Juventus
Cibona Zagreb 71-77 Oostende
Mega Leks 73-98 Iberostar Te
Mornar Bar 70-83 Strasbourg
Group E
AEK Athens 71-64 Stelmet ZG
Banco di Srd 99-85 Partizan
Spirou 92-87 Szolnok
Besiktas 88-85 Ludwigsburg